Photographer captures freak twister over Eastbourne

A lucky photographer captured a freak twister hovering above Eastbourne yesterday (February 11).
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Kyle Hardy, of Euro Self Drive in Westham, captured the unusual weather event at around 1pm on Thursday.

Despite darkening the skies over town, the storm clouds quickly passed overhead.

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Kyle said, “It only lasted about a minute. I was taking some pictures of cars we had up for sale so it was lucky we caught it.

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“It was very strange because it was warm day. We had sun on our backs and there wasn’t a breath of wind and then there is this huge cloud in the sky.

“We had a short hailstorm pass overhead not long afterwards, too.”

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