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Construction worker captures video of dust devil in Richmond

Is it the first recorded tornado on the Lower Mainland in over 50 years?

Some remarkable video of what appears to be a small twister or dust devil has a lot of people talking.

Tim Marsh says he was part of a construction crew in southeast Richmond when they spotted it. He says it lasted around 10 minutes.

The video posted on YouTube earlier this week shows a long, thin finger of wind stretching from the ground into the sky.

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The video shows mostly blue sky, but still pictures show the wind stream coming from a cloud.

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Experts are at odds about whether the video is legitimate.

Some saying the weather conditions at the time simply couldn’t create a tornado. Many people believe it’s just a dust devil.

But after seeing the video and photos, a UBC professor of earth and ocean sciences told the Richmond Review that he believes it’s real.

According to Wikipedia, the last time a tornado was reported on the Lower Mainland was in Vancouver on July 1, 1962.

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