A dust devil was caught on camera in Orange, Massachusetts, when a viewer captured the whirlwind from Crimson Acres Farm during the weekend.

Sister station WCVB Chief Meteorologist Cindy Fitzgibbon explained that while dust devils can look like tornadoes, they are very different in how they form.

"A dust devil is basically the sun heating the ground, and that sends the air rising in these pockets of air, and what happens is it creates an area of low pressure from the rising air. The air from around it fills in, and it creates this circulation, which can be stretched vertically. Then you have that column of air rising from the ground that sucks up some of the dirt and the dust on the ground," Fitzgibbon said.

The dust devil can sustain itself until cooler air gets wrapped in and it falls

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