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