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SOME friends and myself were staying at Lowwood Hotel, Windermere, for a few days, and on Friday, October 16, we were walking by “Rydal Water,” on the opposite side from the road, when we noticed a very curious and most unusual effect on the water, caused by a sudden very heavy squall of wind, which seemed to come from two directions at one time, creating a “whirlwind,” and raising the water and spray on the lake fully 100 feet high or more. There were eight or ten of these disturbances during the time we stayed (probably about twenty minutes), and I was fortunate enough to have my hand-camera with me and to photograph the largest of them, which came sweeping down the lake towards the island (near the centre), and finally broke on the shore with a boom like a cannon, which threw the débris, &c, at the side into the air quite 40 feet high. I have seen small whirlwinds strike on various lakes, but never anything of the magnitude of this. Thinking the incident might be of interest to you, I send you a photograph to make what use of you like.
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ANDERSON, H. Whirlwind on “Rydal Water”. Nature 55, 5 (1896). https://doi.org/10.1038/055005a0
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