Photos: Striking fallstreak clouds punch holes through Southern skies

I think it's a space/time continuum thing!


Beautiful fallstreak clouds punched round, gaping holes in the skies across the South today.

These clouds, seen in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama, form when water vapor is suspended in subfreezing air, but the vapor has not frozen because there is a lack of particles for it to freeze around (or nucleate).

When particles are then introduced, the vapor starts to freeze and falls towards the surface, leaving a void or hole at cloud level, but streaks of cloud underneath.


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