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<\/p>\nI love when viewers notice something cool in the sky!<\/p>\n
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Ron asks us, “What kind of cloud formation is this?”<\/p>\n
Ron Davies<\/p>\n
Ron noticed something interesting and asked: “Hey Ray! What kind of cloud formation is this?”\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
The pictures show a big hole that seems carved out in the clouds. It is not your normal space between clouds – it is a hole in the clouds!<\/p>\n
That is what we call a “fall streak hole” or, more generically, a “hole punch cloud.” \u00a0<\/p>\n
The cool thing about these clouds is that they actually are holes that were punched by something moving through them.<\/p>\n
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Almost like a superhero comic, the clouds get a hole “punched” through them!<\/p>\n
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Remember, for clouds to be suspended in the sky, the water in them is broken up into tiny cloud droplets. Sometimes, those droplets can drop below freezing but stay liquid. \u00a0<\/p>\n
We showed you in the past how supercooled water can freeze instantly in a bottle. This is the process that happens in the sky!<\/p>\n
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In a way, you can do this experiment yourself in cold weather with a water bottle!<\/p>\n
Ray Petelin<\/p>\n
When we flicked the bottle, we introduced a bubble that the ice crystals could grow on. In the sky, the ice crystals get set off by other things, like an aircraft flying through the cloud.<\/p>\n
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It’s like a door in the sky, but not really!<\/p>\n
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The National Weather Service says, “Once the ice crystals are introduced, the water droplets quickly freeze, grow, and start to fall. A hole is left behind, which will start to expand outward as neighboring droplets start to freeze.”<\/p>\n
This leaves a hole in the sky known as a “fallstreak hole” or “hole punch cloud”, and that is super cool.<\/p>\n
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