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What causes the 'hole punch cloud' seen over Massachusetts on Tuesday?

What causes the 'hole punch cloud' seen over Massachusetts on Tuesday?
CRISIS IS PUTTING A STRAIN ON EMERGENCY SHELTERS. TURNING NOW TO THE WEATHER HERE. AND OH, BEAUTIFUL SHOT. YEAH. WHAT IS THIS? ALL RIGHT, SO IF YOU WERE UP EARLY THIS MORNING, YOU MIGHT HAVE NOTICED THERE WAS A NICE COLOR IN THE SKY RIGHT AHEAD OF SUNRISE. BUT WE GOT A LOT OF PICTURES, TOO, OF THIS SAYING, WHAT ARE THESE STRANGE CLOUDS? YOU SEE THAT CLOUD RIGHT THERE? SO WE HAD A DECK OF MID AND HIGH ALTITUDE CUMULUS CLOUDS, LIKE AN. ALTO STRATUS DECK, A CIRRUS DECK. AND THEN YOU CAN SEE HOW THERE’S ALMOST LIKE THIS LITTLE HOLE IN THE DECK RIGHT HERE. THIS WAS ACTUALLY CAUSED BY AN AIRPLANE. SO WITHIN THIS DECK OF CLOUDS YOU’VE GOT THESE KIND OF SUPER COOLED WATER DROPLETS. AND THEN THE PLANE COMES THROUGH AND CAUSES THEM TO FREEZE AND BASICALLY FALL OUT. SO WE CALL THIS A FALL STREAK HOLE OR OFTEN CALLED A HOLE PUNCH CLOUD. AND IT’S CAUSED BY THE AIRCRAFT PASSING THROUGH THE DECK OF CLOUDS. SO REALLY NEEDED IF YOU SPOTTED IT, GAIL HAPPENED TO SEND THIS PICTURE IN FROM GLOUCESTER HARBOR, BUT THEY WERE ALL OVER SOCI
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What causes the 'hole punch cloud' seen over Massachusetts on Tuesday?
Early risers on Massachusetts' North Shore may have noticed a colorful sunrise coupled with an unusual cloud formation on Tuesday morning. The formation is called a fallstreak hole, or a hole punch cloud. It's a circular or elliptical gap that can appear in a deck of cirrocumulus or altocumulus clouds.This time, the formation was photographed in the sky above Gloucester Harbor. "You can see how there's almost, like, this little hole in the deck right here," StormTeam 5 Chief Meteorologist Cindy Fitzgibbon said, pointing at the picture. "This was actually caused by an airplane."The plane passes through the supercooled water droplets in the clouds, causing the droplets to freeze and fall.

Early risers on Massachusetts' North Shore may have noticed a colorful sunrise coupled with an unusual cloud formation on Tuesday morning.

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The formation is called a fallstreak hole, or a hole punch cloud. It's a circular or elliptical gap that can appear in a deck of cirrocumulus or altocumulus clouds.

This time, the formation was photographed in the sky above Gloucester Harbor.

"You can see how there's almost, like, this little hole in the deck right here," StormTeam 5 Chief Meteorologist Cindy Fitzgibbon said, pointing at the picture. "This was actually caused by an airplane."

The plane passes through the supercooled water droplets in the clouds, causing the droplets to freeze and fall.