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  2. 5 interesting things to know about unusual 'fallstreak holes ...

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    The unique cloud formation occurs when airplanes pass through mid-level altocumulus clouds containing supercooled water droplets. ... Meteorologists have noted the strange holes in clouds in ...

  3. ‘Hole-punch' in the sky: Clouds created by airplanes

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    Hole punch clouds in Alabama in 2003 (NWS-Mobile) and Mississippi in 2007 (AccuWeather/JWesley). Residents of New York and Vermont reported seeing a strange cloud in the sky on Monday, June 3, 2024.

  4. Mammatus cloud - Wikipedia

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    Mammatus cloud seen at Puthenpeedika, India Mammatus clouds formation in Coimbatore, India Mammatus clouds over the Nepal Himalayas. Mammatus (also called mamma [1] or mammatocumulus, meaning "mammary cloud") is a cellular pattern of pouches hanging underneath the base of a cloud, typically a cumulonimbus raincloud, although they may be attached to other classes of parent clouds.

  5. Cumulonimbus cloud - Wikipedia

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    Cumulonimbus (from Latin cumulus 'swell' and nimbus 'cloud') is a dense, towering, vertical cloud, [1] typically forming from water vapor condensing in the lower troposphere that builds upward carried by powerful buoyant air currents.

  6. Noctilucent cloud - Wikipedia

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    Noctilucent clouds (NLCs), or night shining clouds, [1] are tenuous cloud-like phenomena in the upper atmosphere of Earth. When viewed from space, they are called polar mesospheric clouds (PMCs) , detectable as a diffuse scattering layer of water ice crystals near the summer polar mesopause .

  7. Storm clouds make great pictures, but what do they mean - AOL

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    From towering cumulonimbus clouds that signal severe thunderstorms to the eerie, pouch-like mammatus clouds often associated with turbulent weather, each cloud formation carries unique information ...

  8. Pareidolia - Wikipedia

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    Satellite photograph of a mesa in the Cydonia region of Mars, often called the "Face on Mars" and cited as evidence of extraterrestrial habitation. Pareidolia (/ ˌ p ær ɪ ˈ d oʊ l i ə, ˌ p ɛər-/; [1] also US: / ˌ p ɛər aɪ-/) [2] is the tendency for perception to impose a meaningful interpretation on a nebulous stimulus, usually visual, so that one detects an object, pattern, or ...

  9. In pictures: Fiery sunsets and UFO-like clouds

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    BBC Weather Watchers have been treated this week to red skies at night in the mornings - and unusual cloud formations. Lenticular clouds could be seen widely across Scotland over the past few days.