Fallstreak holes are circular or elliptical holes in altocumulus or cirrocumulus clouds. These clouds are made up of tiny water droplets at extremely cold temperatures. The water droplets do not ...

Over the Florida Keys, these celestial wonders were noticed by NASA and fishermen alike. The sky formations are known as "cavum clouds" or "fallstreak holes." Here we explore unique facts about these ...

Some of you may have seen this past Thursday (November 2nd), and wondered what it was. This is known as a fallstreak hole or "hole punch cloud." They appear in altocumulus or cirrocumulus clouds. The ...

A full moon was able to illuminate fallstreak holes over Alabama, with some people speculating extraterrestrial involvement. Meteorologists debunked the theories. Screengrab from Ryan Lindsey's ...

Sightings of hole-punch clouds inundated the Facebook page for the National Weather Service in Peachtree City, Georgia, on Monday with more than a dozen photos sent in from across northern Georgia.

They appeared in late January over the southwestern Gulf of Mexico like sinkholes in the sky, or crop circles in clouds of cotton or floating glazed donuts. NASA took note; so did some Florida Keys ...