People in Devon and Cornwall are treated to a glimpse of a weather phenomenon.
The weather phenomenon was spotted near St Austell on Monday evening and at Dartmoor near Ivybridge on Saturday.A funnel cloud was also spotted over the Western Beacon on Dartmoor from Ivybridge
The weather office said funnel clouds do not reach the surface - instead they become a tornado if they reach land or a waterspout they hit a body of water. BBC South West senior broadcast meteorologist David Braine said about 30 tornadoes are reported in the UK every year. "The UK gets more tornadoes per square kilometre than the USA, but not more tornadoes in total," he said.
"UK tornadoes tend to be short-lived and much weaker than those in the States, often not getting the big temperature contrasts to fuel the storm that you get in a large continent.""With climate change it is likely that the frequency and intensity of homegrown tornados will go up," he added.Bridget Privett described her heart as a "ticking time bomb" caused by her artery being in the wrong place.
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