• After witnessing the continued decrease of involvement in the SpotterNetwork staff in serving SN members with troubleshooting issues recently, I have unilaterally decided to terminate the relationship between SpotterNetwork's support and Stormtrack. I have witnessed multiple users unable to receive support weeks after initiating help threads on the forum. I find this lack of response from SpotterNetwork officials disappointing and a failure to hold up their end of the agreement that was made years ago, before I took over management of this site. In my opinion, having Stormtrack users sit and wait for so long to receive help on SpotterNetwork issues on the Stormtrack forums reflects poorly not only on SpotterNetwork, but on Stormtrack and (by association) me as well. Since the issue has not been satisfactorily addressed, I no longer wish for the Stormtrack forum to be associated with SpotterNetwork.

    I apologize to those who continue to have issues with the service and continue to see their issues left unaddressed. Please understand that the connection between ST and SN was put in place long before I had any say over it. But now that I am the "captain of this ship," it is within my right (nay, duty) to make adjustments as I see necessary. Ending this relationship is such an adjustment.

    For those who continue to need help, I recommend navigating a web browswer to SpotterNetwork's About page, and seeking the individuals listed on that page for all further inquiries about SpotterNetwork.

    From this moment forward, the SpotterNetwork sub-forum has been hidden/deleted and there will be no assurance that any SpotterNetwork issues brought up in any of Stormtrack's other sub-forums will be addressed. Do not rely on Stormtrack for help with SpotterNetwork issues.

    Sincerely, Jeff D.

Montreal waterspout july 23, 2008

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Hi!

I have filmed a waterspout (or tornado) here in Montreal 2 days ago. It's not clear if it was a waterspout or a tornado, but anyway, it was over St.Laurent River. A waterspout anyway is less frequent than a tornado in Quebec. It was awsome to be able to film the twister AND the olympic stadium at the same time! :-)

I have filmed the full life of the tornado. Here is just an clip extracted from the full video, for the news.

http://www.tagtele.com/videos/voir/23125/1/
 
Eric, that's very impressive footage. Great catch!!! From other videos, it does appear to be a waterspout. I think it is probably a tornadic waterspout but I have no radar or other data. Were you chasing or did you film it by accident? Was severe weather predicted? I would have enjoyed seeing a waterspout when I visited Montreal a few years ago.

Bill Hark
 
Thanks!

Well, In the last 2 months, I have drove thousand of miles while stormchasing and I think I have seen only one little funnel cloud.... and it's in front of the window of my office that I finaly see a waterspout touchdown! ahah Pure luck, here... with help of my knowledge of cb because there was big cloud structures building and something that has the look of a rotating wall cloud... so, I began to film it. And the funnel has appeared 3 or 4 minutes later.

A tornadic waterspout seems to be right. I think it's very possible.

And guess what... no radar!! The Mcgill Radar for Montreal is down for repair...

8 minutes later, another "waterspout" has touched down 40 miles away, north of Montreal, in Lanoraie. It is very, very unusual for Quebec to have 2 tornadoes or waterspouts on the ground at the same time at to different places. And the Lanoraie waterspout has a big, very big wall cloud and was very violent for a waterspout.

Here's the video of the event in Lanoraie:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=9hLGHfN_2m8

One of the most famous meteorologist here in Montreal has said that in 30 years of carreer, he has never seen of heard about a waterpout like that near Montreal.
 
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