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Watch incredible water sprout in Leros (video)

It is a common natural phenomenon in Leros

Newsroom March 6 10:22

Locals of the island of Leros in the southern Aegean Sea were treated to an impressive sight, when they saw a small water sprout forming near the port of Agia Marina.

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Some people managed to capture the beautiful phenomenon on video and posted the footage online.

A waterspout is an intense columnar vortex that occurs over a body of water. Some are connected to a cumulus congestus cloud, some to a cumuliform cloud and some to a cumulonimbus cloud.

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