Weather It Is (A Tornado in Efrat)

Good Evening:

My daughter returned to the house shortly before 9 P.M on Monday December 9th.

Shortly thereafter, there was a large boom.  In the morning, she wrote to say that the fence in the backyard was broken.  Since, it is unlikely that a vandal came and broke the fence, this had to be weather related.  Note, the missing fence and the tree (centre) snapped in the middle of the picture.
Small tornadoes can snap trees.

One might think that this was only a very strong downburst, but then why is the damage so localised?

Regarding our weather: we're headed up temperature wise, as I mentioned.  The weather will change on the 27th, and rain should arrive on Shabbat or early next week. There is a 10% chance of wet snow with the next event, but (as noted), this storm is approaching from over the sea, so we don't expect a cold snow like we had last week.

Barry Lynn