14 DAY TRIAL // Earlier this week, some very nasty storms hit Britain, but the news failed to concern all that many people living in other countries at first.
However, now that it's been announced that a so-called catnado was one of the extreme weather manifestations that hit the Brits, folks are finally starting to pay attention.
According to Huffington Post, the catnado happened in Chobham, Surrey, England. Apparently, the group of flying animals was by no means as impressive as the one featured in the movie “Sharknado,” which was released just last year.
Still, the people who got to see it form and sweep across the land say that it was well worth having a look at, the same source details.
Media reports say that the felines that formed this catnado were not domestic, but feral ones.
Talking to the press, Shirley Blay, who experienced the incident first hand, detailed that, thanks to some really strong winds, the cats got lifted some 6 feet (roughly 1.8 meters) into the air.
What's more, she said that, after being sucked in, the felines even went for a joyride.
By the looks of it, the feral cats' movements through the air were not all that different from the ones of some paper bags that the wind has no trouble moving from one place to the other.
According to The Guardian, specialists working with the Met Office are not all that convinced that the cats were lifted off the ground by an actual tornado.
On the contrary, they say that, all things considered, it is possible that a simple, yet very strong swirling gust is the one to blame for this peculiar incident.
“None of our spotters reported definitely seeing a tornado and I haven't seen any photographs, so while there could have been a tornado, and we can't prove there wasn't, we believe it was just a sudden onset of very strong squally wind,” a spokesperson for the Met Office told the press.
“People coming out of their homes, though, could well have believed that they were witnessing the eye of a tornado,” he went on to argue.