DALLAS — It's a bird, it's a plane, it's... a hole punch cloud?
On Thursday, many North Texans noticed hole punch clouds.
People sent photos of hole punch clouds, along with pictures of fall streak clouds and cirrocumulus clouds.
Meteorologist Kyle Roberts explained how these clouds happen:
"Fall streaks or hole punch clouds are normally seen in altocumulus or cirrocumulus clouds. The liquid water that makes up the clouds is 'supercooled.' This means that the water droplets are actually below freezing, but they still exist in liquid form.
"When a plane passes through these supercooled clouds, the exhaust and the disturbance of the plane causes the liquid droplets to freeze into ice crystals or evaporate. This creates the holes or streaks in the clouds as seen in the pictures."
Cool-looking clouds over North Texas
The picture below is cirrocumulus clouds.
