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Punch Hole Clouds

By Alex in Pictures on Dec 28, 2008 at 2:11 pm



Photo: Colorado Uerling

Dark Roasted Blend has a neat post about all sorts of weird cloud formations. This one above is a Punch Hole Cloud:

Punch Hole Clouds may appear as a circular or oval holes in a layer of supercooled clouds; sometimes they assume a form of a perfect circle and persist for quite a long time, drifting together with the cloud layer. One explanation seems to blame the air traffic (the jet contrail intersections) combined with a thermal inversion (a circular motion of a rising warm air).

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  1. sam
    Dec 28th, 2008 at 10:05 pm

    That one is actually referred to as a "UFO."

    Run for the hills.

  2. liphttam1
    Dec 28th, 2008 at 10:08 pm

    Im sure theres more then that out there. But the hole cloud section was so much larger then the rest.

  3. chickmagnetstuff
    Dec 29th, 2008 at 7:49 am

    that is scary when I see this my first impression is run because there's going to be a tornado

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