The waterspout crop is generally more plentiful when thunder and lightning are on top, which is in warmer weather.

The temperature of the air at the time of the encounter was 37 degrees; water 54 degrees.

It had been cold during the night, but grew warmer in the morning.

The clouds which overspread the firmament were of the cumulus pattern.
Erichsen and Lorentzen have not only seen other waterspouts, but the first, when on a sailing vessel in the tropics, ran into the very middle of one with no worse result than to deluge the deck of the ship with water as a heavy shower would have done.

He thinks an unusually large waterspout might possibly sink a very small vessel, say a pilot boat, but with a ship of ordinary size he considers bombarding a waterspout with cannon a waste of powder.
AN HEROIC WOMAN.
Every boy and girl should learn to swim.