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Thanks, Hans! That worked for me this time! And, yes, I LOVE having a couple of local meteorologists to interact with and ask questions of! George, I have a TON of photos of that cloud formation and I have sent them to my meteorologist friend to reevaluate. He may or may not get around to it, though. ;-) It’s okay either way – I will keep looking for more fallstreak holes! Another one that is HIGH on my bucket list is the Horseshoe Vortex!
Blessings
Ramonahygge, thanks for letting me know that I am not the only one with “issues”! I can turn off the “paranoid” button now! ;-)
I DID get confirmation by our local meteorologist on the Fallstreak Hole! Here is what he said, “The fallstreak…yes. That’s what you have there. It’s a jet contrail-induced fall streak. The particles in the jet exhaust became nuclei for the ice in those clouds to collect. They basically became precipitation and fell out!”
I am doing a happy cloud dance now!!
Edited to redact, unfortunately!!
Awwww, man!! I just got another email from him. Now I have to go back and undo all of the posts I made! Quoting the meteorologist:
Hold up!
I just added it to my graphics system, and it is NOT a Fallstreak.
It’s a gap in the altocumulus clouds with some cirrus moving overhead. So sorry…the big blown up version was clear, the small on one my computer screen wasn’t.Ahhhhh, gorgeous California skies! It’s so fun seeing clouds from around the globe here in one place!
Cool shadows!!! I love to try and figure out what is casting the shadows – I guess the clouds in the forefront are the shadow makers here?
Nice cloud cover! One of my sons is vacationing in the UK right now and I was going to ask him what the skies are like, but now I don’t need to! Thanks for sharing!
Michael! I appreciate your comment on my photo in the Cloudscapes Volume II thread! For some reason I am not able to comment on that particular thread – it keeps saying I need to log in, even after I do log in. I was able to access this thread, so I reposted the photo here, because I have been looking for a Fallstreak Hole for a LONG time!! It would just figure that I caught one without knowing it, LOL!!
I love your little puffy cloud! It looks like the tip of a poodle’s tail!
Thanks!
Ramona
Something odd is going on with my account…. I am logged in and can comment on this thread, but when I try to comment on the Cloudscapes Volume II thread it shows me as not logged in. I have tried over and over – while being logged in – but I am not able to access that thread. Has it been closed to comments?
I was very excited to reply to the thread, as Michael mentioned that my photo may have been of a Fallstreak Hole. That is TOP on my cloud bucket list, and it amuses me that one may have been right before my eyes and I didn’t realize it! I am eager to find out how to identify it as a Fallstreak Hole – or not? Since I am able to comment on this thread I will post it here again. After all, it WAS taken on New Year’s Day! I would appreciate opinions on whether it is a Fallstreak Hole – and perhaps letting me know if there is a way to identify it for certain? I have seriously been searching the skies for that phenomenon for a long time now!! Forgive me for posting it in two different threads – if I could access the other one I would not even consider doing this!
Thanks!
RamonaI didn’t know what they were either, so I got to figure it out! Here is a link to the article:
https://energized.edison.com/stories/what-are-those-balls-that-hang-on-power-lines
The metadata says this was taken on Jan 2, but the date is wrong. I keep meaning to fix that! ;-)
These clouds were dense enough for the sun to just make an appearance while right next to a “marker ball” on the electrical lines. I thought the juxtaposition was interesting.
Ramona
Hans, I LOVE your black and white photo with the jet airplane!! Very nice!! I know I just poke in here now and then, but I so enjoy getting the Cloud of the Day and I love having this resource! I was trying to put names to these clouds – looking at the Cloud Atlas and using the identification guide, I find myself still not sure what these are… Cirrus and Cirrocumulus? I don’t see any gray areas, so that rules out Altocumulus, right? I am not good at thinking of catchy phrases, so maybe one of you guys could come up with something here, LOL!
Ramona
We had a day recently when there was a full sun halo the entire day!! I was able to go around town and choose what to shoot in front of it! These were taken at the Space and Rocket Center – home of Space Camp. The rocket is an actual Saturn V that is on display at the museum. The other is a solder sculpture. I am giving the rights of the soldier one to a friend, so please do not share! I was so tired at the end of the day, but it was such an amazing experience!
Ramona
OK, next question. The day I took these photos was an amazing sky day!! Such diversity and SO many Pileus clouds forming and then dissipating! Spotting Pileus clouds is one of my favorite sky watching thing to do! This second cloud – I think is a Stratocumulus, due to the stormy nature of it. I watched what seemed to be a Pileus cloud on top of it turn into something MUCH larger – and then it became almost wedge-shaped, in the direction the wind was blowing it (top photo – they loaded in the opposite order I though they would). I actually have a video of this formation but I am sure it is too large to post here.
