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Totally Not a Tornado: ‘Harmless’ Funnel Cloud Spotted Over US Capitol

The US Capitol on March 26, 2020, in Washington, DC. InternationalIndiaAfricaWashingtonians were mildly alarmed on Tuesday afternoon when a funnel cloud appeared in the skies over the US Capitol Building.Severe storms swept through the Washington, DC, metropolitan area on Tuesday, spurred on by the hot, humid weather typical of July in the region. While sometimes it can cook up dangerous tornadoes, meteorologists around the nation’s capital reassured residents that the day’s sighting of a funnel cloud was “harmless.”