Unlike New York, one area in Brazil, Aracatuba, has not had any rainfall in three months. And when that happens, apparently the scariest thing in the world can occur: a fire tornado.
Yes, it sounds like something out of Roland Emmerich’s farcical film The Day After Tomorrow, but it is indeed real. Fortunately, however, the funnel of whirling fire dissipated before long.
Even more fortunately, someone caught the rare phenomenon on video for you to see. (via Huffington Post)
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Jared Wade is co-editor of Risk Management Monitor and senior editor of Risk Management magazine, where he has worked since 2002. You can follow him on Twitter @RiskMgmt and find more of his writing at JaredWade.com.
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So scary! You can be toasted once you get near here.