Category: Clouds

Interesting Satellite Image

31 March, 2010 (08:31) | Clouds, Satellite | 10 comments

This morning as I was looking at the infrared satellite loop at 2:30 AM (yep, that’s normal for a morning weather guy!), I noticed a dark patch of water down in the Gulf that I hadn’t seen before. It’s been there all along, but sometimes we overlook small details of images like these and forget [...]

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. Alien spacecraft to our [...]