Mike Smith
A contrail cuts a line through cirrocumulus clouds: http://meteorologicalmusings.blogspot.com/2010/08/cutting-path-through-clouds.html
Enjoy!
Mike
Enjoy!
Mike
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James Gustina
Supporter
That is really odd but cool to look at. I've never seen jet contrails cut through a cloud like that before. Thanks for sharing mike.
Jeff Snyder
EF5
Looks like a contrail within a distrail. Pretty cool stuff.
Interestingly, I believe there was a thread on here a couple years back about so-called hole-punch clouds over northeastern Texas. The June 2010issue of AMS's BAMS features an article on hole-punch clouds. I think the article is publicly-available -- see the following:
Heymsfield, A. J., P. C. Kennedy, S. Massie, C. Schmitt, Z. Wang, S. Haimov, and A. Angno, 2010: Aircraft-induced Hole Punch and canal clouds: inadvertent cloud seeding. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 91, 753-766.
For those unfamiliar, BAMS is kind of a "general audience" journal intended to be read by all members of AMS. As such, articles in BAMS tend to be more general and not as technical as those in other journals.
Interestingly, I believe there was a thread on here a couple years back about so-called hole-punch clouds over northeastern Texas. The June 2010issue of AMS's BAMS features an article on hole-punch clouds. I think the article is publicly-available -- see the following:
Heymsfield, A. J., P. C. Kennedy, S. Massie, C. Schmitt, Z. Wang, S. Haimov, and A. Angno, 2010: Aircraft-induced Hole Punch and canal clouds: inadvertent cloud seeding. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 91, 753-766.
For those unfamiliar, BAMS is kind of a "general audience" journal intended to be read by all members of AMS. As such, articles in BAMS tend to be more general and not as technical as those in other journals.
Steven Williams
EF2
Interesting picture. I believe the high level cloud is made of supercooled water and thats why the effect is so dramatic.
