A couple of minutes later, while in the Sound between Loch Aline and Ardtornish we noticed a most odd looking black line stretching down from a cloud, looking for all the world like a photograph of a tornado. Now I read somewhere that tornadoes are funnel clouds that touch the ground, but the hills of Morven made it impossible to tell if it did. Unfortunately I didn't think of photographing it until it was almost hidden behind the hills. However a few minutes later another one of these odd looking formations appeared on the Mull side. Although less impressive I did take a photograph, although it doesn’t really do it justice. Other than reducing the size I have deliberately left it unedited - the spiral shape in the centre was rather more pronounced in real life and dissipated after a few minutes.
Loch Aline looked as though it took a drenching, and I suppose that the first more impressive cloud would have been fairly obvious from any boats anchored there.
Was anyone there on Wednesday?