EXTREME Weather Video: Tornado meets active volcano

Move over, Sharknado, there's a new tornado combo in town, and this one's much more realistic: Volca-nado (Disclaimer: Not a technical term).

What you're seeing is a weather phenomenon similar to a tornado, caught by an infrared camera on Iceland's Bardarbunga volcano.

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So how does the volcano tornado work? The designer of the camera explained to New Scientist that the funnel is most likely filled with sulphur dioxide, gas and volcanic ash coming out of Bardarbunga's lava. The cause of the 3200-foot tall "volcano tornado" is not known.

The camera was designed by Fred Prata of Nicarnica Aviation in Norway to help pilots see volcanic ash.

Scientists have kept a close watch on Bardarbunga and the Holuhraun lava field since mid-August, when the volcano started creating seismic activity that led to a series of earthquakes. For more than a week, it has been spewing fountains of lava into the sky that have reached as high as 700 feet in the air.

Check out this footage of those fountains posted by Simon Redfern of the University of Cambridge and Kristinn Ingi Ptursson.