The weather remains a fascinating phenomenon, as it turned out on Sunday. The predicted severe weather caused a so-called roll cloud above Almkerk. Anna Arentse saw him coming and captured the phenomenon.
It happened around four o’clock in Almkerk, in the polder. Anna Arents saw a real roll cloud arise right in front of her house.
A roll cloud is an elongated cloud that rotates on its horizontal axis and is completely separate from the clouds above it. According to meteorologists it is quite a rare occurrence. The cloud looks like a kind of elongated tube.
“It happened right in front of me and the cloud was moving towards us very quickly.”
Arents: “It happened right in front of me and the cloud came towards us very quickly. Suddenly it got dark and it brought heavy rain, strong wind and rumbling at a rapid pace.”
Lightning was visible in the fields in her area at that time. “It got foggy from the rain that was coming so I quickly went inside. The rain then poured down from the sky.” In Almkerk the violent weather lasted for an hour.