I spotted something odd on the way home tonight.

Around half-way down the M69, heading towards Leicester, just off to my left, I spotted a dark circle in the sky. A perfect circle, no breaks or gaps, just…floating. As I got closer, I noticed it had a downward cone trail below it, and I started to think it was some sort of twister! Didn’t we have one in Brum not so long ago?

As I pootled merrily towards home, getting closer and closer to this thing, I started to think it was, genuinely, a hurricane of some sort. I’ve never seen anything like it before – this big black disc floating ominously above the motorway. And that’s where it was heading: right across the lane I was heading down.

So what happens next? Do I get sucked up, and thrown into one of the numerous green fields that sit beside the motorway? Do I get abducted by aliens, disguised as they are – never understimate how fiendish those aliens can be – as a freak cloud formation?

No. None of the above. I drive through it; under it to be precise, and continue on my way. I wondered whether I should hit the hard shoulder and take a photo, but the sorry excuse for a camera on my phone would’ve made it look like a blackout in a chocolate factory. Whatever that looks like.

I’m not sure that I have any weather experts/fans reading – can you even get fans of weather? – but if there are, or they happen to stumble across this, I’d like to hear from them.