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General Weather/Earth Sciences Topics => Weather Photography => Topic started by: Bushman on January 29, 2019, 02:32:16 PM

Title: Fallstreak Hole
Post by: Bushman on January 29, 2019, 02:32:16 PM

I have to admit I have never heard this term nor seen this.  https://www.saobserver.net/trending-now/strange-cloud-forms-in-b-c-sky/

Title: Re: Fallstreak Hole
Post by: havtrail on January 29, 2019, 02:52:08 PM

New to me, too. Very interesting!

Title: Re: Fallstreak Hole
Post by: miraculon on January 29, 2019, 03:02:19 PM

I first saw this when I read about it in Weatherwise 50 years ago. (yes, I subscribed back then when I was 15 years old)

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00431672.1968.9932811 (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00431672.1968.9932811)

(https://www.tandfonline.com/na101/home/literatum/publisher/tandf/journals/content/vwws20/1968/vwws20.v021.i05/00431672.1968.9932822/production/00431672.1968.9932822.fp.png_v03)

Greg H.

Title: Re: Fallstreak Hole
Post by: floodcaster on January 29, 2019, 04:16:19 PM

Took this last February (2018) over the backyard. I think they are more common than once thought.

Title: Re: Fallstreak Hole
Post by: Fredicere on March 29, 2019, 10:39:51 AM

Really cool how weather can form such interesting things in the sky.