Residents of Oak Island, a North Carolina beach town, were left confused by and in awe of a strange cloud formation that formed overhead during the late afternoon of December 31.<br /><br />In the video, a cone-shaped, cloud-like phenomenon can be seen meeting what appears to be a shelf cloud. The filmer, Terrah Hewett, said the formation was over the sea most of the time.<br /><br />Hewett's clip was shared over 200 times on Facebook, with comments expressing bewilderment and debating what it is. Some suggested that it was a small microburst, a meteorological term for a concentrated downpour, while others noted its resemblance to a tornado.<br /><br />"It was amazing and scary," Hewett said in a reply to one of the comments.
