Tuesday, January 29, 2019

Weird holes in the clouds

Courtesy of the Stringmans on Whidbey Island
A friend asked me yesterday to take a look out the window, where a strange phenomenon caught her eye: a hole in the sky! I then found that this was happening all around the area, and Cliff Mass wrote an article all about what was happening. You can read the entire post here.

I snagged that picture from his blog. Here is what he had to say about the weird holes:
No...these were not alien incursions into Washington air space, but the impact of aircraft passing through a cloud deck of supercooled water (liquid water at 32°F or below).   The planes climbing or descending through the clouds caused the supercooled water to turn to ice crystals and fall out, leaving a circular hole.  These features are also known as "punch hole" clouds and often form in mid-level altocumulus cloud decks.
Actually, I think he was just covering up for the aliens. I've never seen anything like these before. Have you?
:-)

13 comments:

  1. I did not see them in person, but I heard about them on the news yesterday. A cool natural phenomenon, or are we being invaded? :-)

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  2. Oh wow. I have never seen them, and would be open-mouthed in awe. And would probably run into things/trip over with my eyes glued to the sky. Huge thanks to you and Cliff.

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  3. Now that's something new to me! It makes sense.

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  4. Nope never seen such a thing, but then we are not exactly in a flight path either:)

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  5. It looks like a lenticular cloud, described really well in the book The Fog, about a pilot's flight through the Bermuda Triangle. Intriguing.

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  6. Fascinating and new to me. Thanks for the post.

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  7. No, I haven't seen this before, and even tho it makes sense, his explanation, I find it too alienating to comprehend any truth. But, science always is questionable. Anything's possible. Right?

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  8. Wow, that does look other worldly. I kind of want to believe the aliens are arriving. Hope they bring us solutions.

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  9. Nope! Have never seen that before. Punching holes in the clouds. Fascinating! :)

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  10. It does look like something from outer space. Aliens!

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