meanwhile: Lebanon has its first ever water spout/tornado

http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index.php?smp=&lang=eng


Area: Lebanon, Liban-Sud, , Tyre

Description:


23rd October 2008 at 1530 hrs LT people in Tyre, South Lebanon suddenly realized that a Tornado, coming from the open Mediterranean Sea was heading towards the city. It stayed a couple of hundred of metres outside the town and dispersed after about ten minutes, no damage to people or property was reported The occurence is very unusual, nobody has seen anything like this before here. The pictures were taken by my eight year old son Aggelos from our balcony who was very impressed and not scared at all, according to his own "report".
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and Australia has a severe hailstorm that did much damange to a large area of crops