The tornado look-a-like!

Cool air meeting warmer than average water caused a water spout seen at sea from the Manx coast, experts said.

Resident Ben Brooker said it could be seen in Douglas Bay for a few minutes from about 9.30am on Tuesday.

Mr Brooker lives in an apartment on Douglas Promenade and has a camera set up in his window all the time.

A spokesman from the Met Office said: ‘The difference between a water spout and a tornado is that a spout occurs over the sea and a tornado over land.

‘The recent weather patterns we are seeing on the Island meant conditions were ideal for a water spout at the time it was photographed.’