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Hurricane study to tackle long-standing mystery
Researchers and aircraft will search for secrets of hurricane formation above the tropical Atlantic Ocean.
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Tornado researchers catch a squall line during VORTEX2
In the spring of 2009, researchers on the Second Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes Experiment (VORTEX2) field project set out across the Great Plains to study tornadoes, but that’s not the only phenomenon they observed.
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Mysterious clouds produced when aircraft inadvertently cause rain or snow
Turboprop and jet aircraft can create hole-punch clouds, which have long fascinated the public.
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The hole story
They’ve been called “crop circles in the sky.” Across the world, sightings of oddly circular holes within cloud layers—dubbed hole-punch clouds by scientists—have triggered bemusement and speculation.
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