Explaining Rare 'Hole Punch' Cloud With Rainbow in the Middle. Residents of Wonthaggi, near Melbourne, Australia, were taken off guard by the appearance of a hole punch cloud earlier this week.

Have you ever seen this happen in the sky? It looks like a certain type of cloud, but with a huge hole in the middle of it? Image credit: Leslie Becker, WDRB viewer, Dec 21st, '21, For many years ...

The cloud received its name due to the resemblance of a circular gap in the middle ... these supercooled droplets will freeze on contact to an object and this is what happens with "Hole Punch" clouds.

NEW ORLEANS — Did you see this hole in the clouds on late Wednesday afternoon? It’s a pretty neat thing called a "fallstreak cloud," "hole punch," or "punch hole cloud." ...

I give you, the 'hole-punch' or 'fallstreak' cloud. News 8's own Jonathan Fong stumbled upon a Reddit post recently featuring this type of cloud formation and asked about its origins.

Clouds of cold dust in the Milky Way come in unpredictable and complex shapes, making it difficult for a computer to find holes threaded in these dense patches of dust.

Richmond, Va (WRIC) – Richmonders saw some interesting clouds today. These unique cloud formations are called fallstreak holes. They are seen as holes in a mid-level cloud deck with thin wisps ...

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 ...