Category: Clouds

Hole Punch

7 December, 2008 (07:53) | Clouds | 1 comment

These wonderful pictures from reader Russell Poe are of a rare but beautiful phenomenon…it is caused when a jet passes through a deck of altocumulus or cirrocumulus clouds. The exhaust from the plane can cause the supercooled water droplets of the clouds to precipitate out, creating a “hole” in the clouds.
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