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IA Met
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posted January 29, 2007 08:04 PM
 We had some cool hole punch cloud formations today. This picture was taken right outside our building. We have a bunch more on our weather blog.
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WXFORECASTER
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posted January 29, 2007 08:11 PM
Damn Russians at it again. They will never give up! LOL
Sweet Picture man! Hope everything is going good down there! ![[Wink]](wink.gif)
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cuontv
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posted January 29, 2007 08:14 PM
Look MARY....crop circles in the sky!
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QG Theorist
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posted January 29, 2007 08:18 PM
here is a Sat pic of it
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WXFORECASTER
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posted January 29, 2007 08:30 PM
That Sat picture along with the Picture taken is amazing.
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cloud9
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posted January 29, 2007 09:31 PM
COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!
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Bob Sakamano
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posted January 29, 2007 10:32 PM
Here is one from my neck of the woods...
Very cool indeed. First time I've seen this in person.
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sandwichpick
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posted January 30, 2007 02:41 AM
Nice shots fellas. I saw them but was removed from my digital cam. Actually, mine weren't perfect holes like those, but were more elongated. They were awesome, and certainly hole punch clouds.
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TAFKA wacowx
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posted January 30, 2007 03:30 AM
I am assuming that jets and air traffic produce the condensation nucleii for these holes to form. Some climbing through the cloud deck to reach flight altitude produce the holes while the longer streaks are from flights staying at that cloud level for an extended time.
That's the explanation, no?
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Baumer
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posted January 30, 2007 03:34 AM
Spotted them here in south Louisiana too. Only about 2 of them, but that was the first time I have ever seen them! Pretty neat!
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WisconsinWX
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posted January 30, 2007 03:36 AM
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Originally posted by wacowx:
I am assuming that jets and air traffic produce the condensation nucleii for these holes to form. Some climbing through the cloud deck to reach flight altitude produce the holes while the longer streaks are from flights staying at that cloud level for an extended time.
That's the explanation, no?
Basically - check this out: http://www.crh.noaa.gov/grb/?n=holepunch
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GustyXwinds
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posted January 30, 2007 05:38 AM
LOL. Heard on Coast To Coast AM yesterday morning on the way to work this topic being discussed. Appearantly, it's the result of alien space ships.
Can you say, "All Your Base Are Belong To Us?"
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WisconsinWX
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posted January 30, 2007 05:55 AM
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Originally posted by GustyXwinds:
LOL. Heard on Coast To Coast AM yesterday morning on the way to work this topic being discussed. Appearantly, it's the result of alien space ships.
Can you say, "All Your Base Are Belong To Us?"
I can! ![[Whistle]](graemlins/eusa_whistle.gif)
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WeatherSlave
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posted January 31, 2007 08:20 AM
Okay, so I looked at the Green Bay sight for their "Hole-Punch 101" info and pics. I was gonna use that in a school the other day until I saw the image of the two next to eachother. It looked like a 50 year old woman's mamagram!!! ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
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sbachmeier
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posted January 31, 2007 10:01 AM
We posted some GOES and MODIS imagery on our CIMSS Satellite Blog:
http://tinyurl.com/yomo9w
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sbachmeier
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posted January 31, 2007 10:07 AM
"Hot spots" due to fire activity (as determined by shortwave IR channel MODIS imagery) -- note the tiny grey smoke plumes drifting southward from some of those hot spots.
[ January 31, 2007, 10:10 AM: Message edited by: sbachmeier ]
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Lunar Eclipse
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posted January 31, 2007 10:29 AM
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Originally posted by WeatherSlave:
Okay, so I looked at the Green Bay sight for their "Hole-Punch 101" info and pics. I was gonna use that in a school the other day until I saw the image of the two next to eachother. It looked like a 50 year old woman's mamagram!!!
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