Beachgoers in Portugal scrambled for cover over the weekend as the sweltering heat gave birth to a rare “tsunami roll,” or ominous wave of dark clouds over the water.
Viral video of Sunday’s phenomenon showed bathers in Praia de Buarcos in awe of the enormous roll cloud approaching the beach as it began blocking out the sun and kicking up gusts of winds.
“It was nuts to have experienced this rolling cloud in the north of Portugal,” a beachgoer wrote on X. “Felt like a tsunami out of a movie!”
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A massive roll cloud hovers ominously over a Portuguese beach Sunday. Nuno Pereira via Storyful The tsunami-like cloud was formed as temperatures reached more than 107 degrees. Nuno Pereira via Storyful
While the tubular, wave-like
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