{"id":4764,"date":"2013-11-23T23:45:56","date_gmt":"2013-11-24T04:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=4764"},"modified":"2013-11-29T07:44:35","modified_gmt":"2013-11-29T12:44:35","slug":"weird-cloud-pattern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=4764","title":{"rendered":"Weird Cloud Pattern"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4766\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/img_20131123_072886.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4766\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/img_20131123_072886-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Weird Cloud Pattern\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4766\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/img_20131123_072886-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/img_20131123_072886-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/img_20131123_072886-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/img_20131123_072886-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/img_20131123_072886.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4766\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Weird Cloud Pattern<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I was at the school today for the Christmas Bazaar when two friends came to my table and asked if I had my camera with me. Of course I did. They said that&#8217;s wait at my table for me and that I should go outside and look at the clouds to the north east. This is what I saw. I have no idea what might have caused this pattern. The rest of the sky was filled with a thin layer of clouds like the surrounding clouds in this picture, except to the west where it was clearing up. Strange.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: A friend of mine identified this phenomenon for me. It is called a Fallstreak hole and the formation occurs when part of a cloud of water droplets freezes into ice crystals. Here is the relevant page on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fallstreak_hole\" title=\"Wikipedia Fallstreak Hole Page\" target=\"_WikipediaFallstreak\">Wikipedia<\/a> and also a page at <a href=\"http:\/\/cloudappreciationsociety.org\/fallstreak-holes-%E2%80%93-a-new-understanding\/\" title=\"Cloud Appreciation Society Fallstreak Hole Page\" target=\"_CloudSociety\">The Cloud Appreciation Society<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was at the school today for the Christmas Bazaar when two friends came to my table and asked if I had my camera with me. Of course I did. They said that&#8217;s wait at my table for me and that I should go outside and look at the clouds to the north east. This &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=4764\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4764"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4764"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4778,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4764\/revisions\/4778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}