A tornado was seen forming in UK skies as residents captured the huge funnel cloud on camera. After a week of soaring temperatures for most of the country, the heatwave gave way to thunderstorms and torrential rain in parts.
In the village of Rhosgadfan near Caernarfon, North Wales, residents were shocked to see a vortex moving through th sky on Thursday evening.
Caernarfon councillor Jason Wayne Parry captured an image of the funnel cloud starting to form at around 9pm from nearby Groeslon, which he described as "scary".
He said: "It didn’t form totally. It grew and stayed there for about four minutes [before it] then faded. "It was quite still.
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