Hole punch clouds in Alabama in 2003 (NWS-Mobile) and Mississippi in 2007 (AccuWeather/JWesley). Residents of New York and Vermont reported seeing a strange cloud in the sky on Monday, June 3, 2024.

The first report of this unusual cloud appeared in Weather magazine in 1948, in an article titled “Man-Made Cirrus?” The ...

SOUTH MISSISSIPPI (WLOX) - A hole appeared in the clouds on Tuesday morning over the Mississippi Gulf Coast. This rare cloud phenomenon is known as a hole punch cloud. It has other names; sometimes ...

This true-color image shows hole-punch and canal clouds off the coast of Florida, as observed on December 12, 2014, by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer on NASA’s Terra satellite. In ...

Did you see it? The Punch hole cloud or hole punch cloud or fallstreak. Plane flew near altocumulus clouds. Caused pressure to fall. Temperatures to fall. Ice crystals formed. Moisture freezes on the ...

In this week’s Sunday Science Tidbit, we’re going to talk about an unusual cloud known as hole punch clouds or fall-streak clouds but before we get to the cloud we’ve got to talk about some really ...

Residents of Wonthaggi, Australia (map) snapped pictures of a rare, rainbow-filled "hole punch" cloud on Monday. By the next day, the photos had gone viral with speculation about the unusual ...

While tempted to expand on Chicken Little, I decided to pass and move on. On most Thursday mornings before I head to the University of Georgia, I take the trash and recycle bins to the curb. On this ...

NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter captures one of the Red Planet's biggest volcanoes peeking over clouds at dawn. A bit after sunrise on June 6, 2025, NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter saw one of Mars' ...