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Devil of a day at McIvor Lake Dusty whirlwind kicks up in parking lot
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Dusty whirlwind kicks up in parking lot Kristen Douglas Campbell miRRoR KristenRiveR Douglas Campbell RiveR miRRoR
Barrie Darnel/Specail to the Mirror Barrie Darnel/Specail to the Mirror
McIvor Lake swimmers were surprised to see a dust devil rise from the parking lot located at the McIvor Lake swimmers werelast surprised to afternoon. see a dust devil rise from the parking lot located at the northwest corner of the lake Thursday northwest corner of the lake last Thursday afternoon.
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A weather phenomenon took McIvor Lake by storm last week. A weather phenomenon took McIvor Lake by in storm last week. was enjoyBarrie Darnel, owner of Duke’s Dockside Grill Campbellton, Darnel,sunny ownerafternoon of Duke’s Dockside Campbellton, ingBarrie a beautiful at the lakeGrill last in Thursday when was the enjoypeace ing adisrupted. beautiful sunny afternoon at the lake last Thursday when the peace was was disrupted. “I’m sitting at the beach with my two grandbabies and I’m looking at the “I’mand sitting at athe beacheveryone with my istwo grandbabies I’m looking at the water all of sudden looking behind and me and saying ‘what’s water Iand all ofbehind a sudden looking me,” and saying that?’ looked me everyone and went is‘holy cow, behind a tornado’ Darnel said.‘what’s that?’ I looked behind went ‘holy cow,– a tornado’ ,” Darnel The “tornado” turnedme outand to be a dust devil whirlwind similarsaid. in shape “tornado” out tohot be air a dust – a whirlwind similarthrough in shapea toThe a tornado that turned forms when neardevil the surface rises quickly to a tornado thatair forms when hot hot air near the surface rises quickly through pocket of cooler above it. The air moves both upwards and in a circlea pocket ofthe cooler air above through swirling dust. it. The hot air moves both upwards and in a circle through dust. picked up in the dusty family parking lot located Darnel the saidswirling the whirlwind said the whirlwind picked up in theshot dusty family parking lot air located onDarnel the northwest side of McIvor Lake, and 300 feet up into the and on the northwest side of of aMcIvor and shot 300 feet up into the air and was about “the length car” inLake, diametre. was aboutcouldn’t “the length of a what car” in Darnel believe hediametre. was seeing and snapped four photos of couldn’t His believe what was seeing snapped four photos of theDarnel phenomenon. photo washeposted on theand Mirror’s Facebook page last the phenomenon. His caught photo was posted onofthe Mirror’s Facebook page last Thursday and quickly the attention readers. Thursday and quickly caughtthe thevalidity attentionofofthe readers. Several people questioned photo but Sandra HughesSeveral people questioned of the came phototobut Sandradefence. HughesKoughan, who was at McIvor the Lakevalidity on vacation, Darnel’s Koughan, was at McIvor Lake came “Not fake,who ” Hughes-Koughan said.on “Itvacation, was totally real.to ” Darnel’s defence. “Not fake,it,” Hughes-Koughan said. wasoftotally real. ” which is also on To prove she released a video she“It shot the dust devil, prove it,Facebook she released theToMirror’s page.a video she shot of the dust devil, which is also on the Mirror’s Facebook page. phenomenon kicked up around 2:40 p.m., Darnel said the funnel-like Darnel said funnel-like phenomenon kickedasup around 2:40 p.m., lasted about sixthe minutes, and was gone as suddenly it appeared. lasted about minutes, as suddenly as it appeared. “It was the six coolest thing,and ” hewas said.gone “There was no wind or anything else in was the thing,City ” hetornado. said. “There no wind or anything in the“Ittrees, just coolest this Kansas It waswas a nice, hot, hot day at theelse lake. trees, justnot thiswindy. Kansas Itthewas calm, ” City tornado. It was a nice, hot, hot day at the lake. ItAccording was calm, not windy.” to FriendlyForecast.com, clear skies, flat land, no wind and a According to FriendlyForecast.com, clearwhich skies, are flattypically land, nomost windprevaand a cooler atmosphere contribute to dust devils, cooler atmosphere to dust devils, are typically most prevalent in dry, hot, aridcontribute and semi-arid areas likewhich a desert. lent dry, hot, ariddust andfunnel semi-arid areasjust likeone a desert. Theineye-catching occurred day after a small brush fire, funnel occurred justatone day after small brush fire, inThe the eye-catching bushes acrossdust from the boat launch McIvor Lake,a which scorched the bushes the and boatwas launch Lake, which scorched ain30x60 metreacross patch from of forest put at outMcIvor three hours after fire crews a 30x60 metre patch of forest and was put out three hours after fire crews attended. attended. To view Hughes-Koughan’s photo of the dust devil visit campbellrivermirTo view photo of the dust devil visit campbellrivermirror.com orHughes-Koughan’s the Mirror’s Facebook page. ror.com or the Mirror’s Facebook page.
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