A ‘cap de fibló‘ has surprised this Tuesday those who were along the coast in Ibiza. Specifically, the video that accompanies this news was recorded from the area where the fishermen’s huts of Pou des Lleó are around 10 am. It seems that the atmospheric instability continues in the Pitiusas, at least offshore. The phenomenon has lasted about half an hour, according to the author of the video.
In the images you can see how the water of the sea is rising through the vortex or whirlpool of this kind of tornado. A ‘cap de fibló’ is a whirlpool that forms on the surface of the water that would normally is associated with large cumulonimbus cloudswhich are clouds that develop more vertically.
Marine sleeves are a common phenomenon in the Balearic Islands that, in addition to being formed by vertical clouds, generate a column of warm and humid air that rises in the form of a rotating spiral and can carry sea water.