Thunder storms and water spout out to sea Esentepe

Groucho



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Message Posted:
25/10/2010 06:56

6:50 Rumbles of thunder in direction of Turkish Mainland and looked up to see an enormous water spout (tornado) about 30 miles out.....

racoonchic



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Message Posted:
25/10/2010 07:23

yougot some eyes to see 30 miles

Groucho



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Message Posted:
25/10/2010 07:30

Well the Turkish mainland is 40 miles and I can see that, the moon that's 384,403 km (238,857 miles) approx.



How far can you see?



Should have gone to Spec-Savers..

flutterby


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Message Posted:
25/10/2010 07:39

Could not see and we are not that far away from you! :-(

Hippo


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Message Posted:
25/10/2010 07:55

Distance to the Horizon

How far can we see across the water to the horizon?

Let r = the Earth's radius = 3963 miles

Let h = height of a person in miles

Let d = distance seen to the horizon in miles

The sight line of a person to the horizon would be on a line passing through their eyes and tangent to the Earth at the seen horizon.

Since the radius of any circle is perpendicular to the tangent, the tangent and the radius make the legs of a right triangle. The radius plus the person's height (in miles) are the hypotenuse. We can then use the Pythagorean Theorem. Be careful to convert the person's height into miles.



c2 = a2 + b2





thus ( r + h )2 = d2 + r2





then d2 = ( r + h )2 - r2





d = sqrt ( ( r + h )2 - r2 ) )







Examples: A person with eyes 6 feet off the surface would see approximately 3 miles. From the Bank of China building (1033 ft tall) you would see approximately 39.4 miles.



Does this answer your question

bridie


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Message Posted:
25/10/2010 08:20

There should be more in the next week or so, it is the time of the year for them.

Groucho



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Message Posted:
25/10/2010 08:22

The water spout was clearly visible but then we live half-way up the hill in Esentepe... you may however have hit on Richard's problem... being a short-arse as he is...



Objects not on the horizon, e.g. in the sky can be seen for much further of course... so your example only applies to objects on the surface of the earth.. i.e. given your height above sea level, how far you can see on the horizon before the earth curves away - not, how far you can see?





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Took a picture but the sky was so dark and I was rushing to snap before it disappeared... it was moving at speed....

racoonchic



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Message Posted:
25/10/2010 08:37

are you sure it wasnt navek stopping for a waz on his way back from the pub xx

Groucho



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Message Posted:
25/10/2010 08:45

[url= http://postimage.org/image/lgzwtfac/full/][img] http://s4.postimage.org/aAcNA-12108a7d.jpg[/img][/url]

Uploaded with [url= http://www.postimage.org/]postimage.org[/url]

Groucho



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Message Posted:
25/10/2010 08:47

Can't get it working.... which is a bugger

DutchCrusader



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Message Posted:
25/10/2010 09:02

Groucho, please support my plea to Izzet for an edit button...

Btw: on this board you don't have to write [url] etc in front of an URL - just the URL.

But..., you have to copy or type the right URL, which you did not do in this case: [url= http://www.postimage.org/]postimage.org[/url].

[url needs another ] so: [url] (but this is not necessary on this board, as I said above) and a double domain name in the URL doesn't work when you put a ] in the middle.

Groucho, please support my plea to Izzet for an edit button...



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deputydawg


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Message Posted:
25/10/2010 13:49

Hippo, by the time I did your maths, factoring in having one eye 2 inches higher than the other, and using the Wildebeest's (bless her) binos, I could see no trace of the Water Spout referred to in the earlier post and I suspect it is by now underneath a Filipino in a deckchair about halfway across the Pacific !

rowlo



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Message Posted:
25/10/2010 13:57

wow hippo , your the man .

Groucho



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Message Posted:
25/10/2010 22:53

Think different (the best ever Apple slogan)



Nah! An Apple a day keeps the doctor away is better....



or



'where's the other half of that maggot?'

Brinsley


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Message Posted:
25/10/2010 22:55

Hippo

Where's your C44 photo?!



Richard

millzer


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Message Posted:
25/10/2010 23:14

groucho you have a photo hurrrrrah ! dunno what all the fuss was about mate............... only kiddin!

Hippo


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Message Posted:
26/10/2010 06:45

Richard bey- the same place as your photo is.



Don't start poor Hippo off again about the authoritarian manner this board is managed in.

racoonchic



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Message Posted:
26/10/2010 07:58

thats not groucho thats his wifes boyfriend xxx

Groucho



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Message Posted:
26/10/2010 22:53

Richard the plural of wife is wives....



http://s4.postimage.org/aAcNA.jpg



This is the picture... it's not easy to see the spout but it's just off centre to the right... it was dark.



DC I used the copy link function in Postimage and it puts all the junk in the URL... it seesm to have changed as it always used to work quite simply...

snakes



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Message Posted:
26/10/2010 22:57

ere we go ere we go ere we go ! another "I,m cleverer than you post " thought the original was quite good really !

Colliedog


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Message Posted:
27/10/2010 00:56

Hi Groucho,



What we seen in Tatlisu, was before it progressed into a tornado. My wife asked me what was this coming in on the sea. When I looked it seemed as if it were a flock of birds, skimming over the water, still looking at it in more detail, it was rotating along the sea. It was only a few meters out and heading inland by SeaTerra Reserve, it then veered off towards Esentepe and out further to sea. I tried to look at it and follow it through my camera zoom lens, but was moving and rolling alone to get it focused.



Hope this helps as your post helped me to understand what it was.



Cheers.

Lilli



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Message Posted:
27/10/2010 01:01

well if we have rain , thunder whatever i will click to see the long awaited for picture, sorry grouch had a long and upsetting night so my spelling is worse than usual but i think its great

Lilli



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Message Posted:
27/10/2010 01:02

oops your photo i mean xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Clarissa2


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Message Posted:
27/10/2010 01:20

Re : Msg 19,



Groucho, your picture is too small to see.



I do support everyone's plea about edit button!



I was furious yesterday fighting postimage.

Groucho



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Message Posted:
27/10/2010 07:41

Colliedog,



Yes we see them quite often but by the time this one was fully formed it was moving back east from Esentepe towards Tatlısu.



Given the distance it must have been several hundred metres long (high)...



Snakes, "ere we go ere we go ere we go ! another "I,m cleverer than you post " thought the original was quite good really !"



Not sure what you are on about... Richard and I rib each other regularly... but then we know each other.

Navek



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Message Posted:
27/10/2010 08:38

Hi racoonchic,

"are you sure it wasnt navek stopping for a waz on his way back from the pub xx"

Wasn't me, I was still in the pub )))

Here's a link to a water spout caught on camera last year,

hope it works :-0...

http://www.lincguide.com/review/2009/11/twister-in-esentepe/

Navek

Navek



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Message Posted:
27/10/2010 08:41

Here's another link..

http://www.cyprus44.com/forums/25281.asp

Navek

Groucho



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Message Posted:
27/10/2010 09:58

This one was massively bigger and much more formed in the classic tornado funnel that reached right up to the cloud base... several hundred metres in height... Unfortunately it was still quite dark being early morning and the large volume of dark thunder clouds didn't help.