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Offshore from these areas, the NWS also warned that waterspouts could form.
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Joe Edwards, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Oct. 2025
Sail past the active, 30-story-tall Hubbard Glacier where massive slabs of blue ice dramatically calve into the sea, and spot waterspouts at Kenai Fjords National Park, near Seward, in the far north.
—AFAR Media, 30 July 2025
Every year, in Yoro, Honduras, for example, fish rain down on the city thought to have been sucked into waterspouts.
—Jim Clash, Forbes.com, 28 July 2025
Falling off the wind to sail around the waterspout.
—Stephen Colbert, Outside Online, 5 Apr. 2011
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Joe Edwards, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Oct. 2025
Sail past the active, 30-story-tall Hubbard Glacier where massive slabs of blue ice dramatically calve into the sea, and spot waterspouts at Kenai Fjords National Park, near Seward, in the far north.
—AFAR Media, 30 July 2025
Every year, in Yoro, Honduras, for example, fish rain down on the city thought to have been sucked into waterspouts.
—Jim Clash, Forbes.com, 28 July 2025
Falling off the wind to sail around the waterspout.
—Stephen Colbert, Outside Online, 5 Apr. 2011
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for waterspout
gutter
Noun
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All gutters and drains should be cleaned of ice, snow, and other debris, the agency said.—
Bailey Allen,
The Providence Journal,
28 Jan. 2026
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Andre Kazimiersky is the co-owner and president at HomeHero Roofing, a residential roofing and gutter company.—
Cori Sears,
The Spruce,
28 Jan. 2026
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“Waterspout.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/waterspout. Accessed 3 Feb. 2026.
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