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Did you see them? Sunday’s SpaceX launch creates weird clouds
Read full article: Did you see them? Sunday’s SpaceX launch creates weird cloudsSunlight from below the horizon illuminated the exhaust from Spacex's Falcon 9 rocket Sunday morning. If you were up early Sunday to see SpaceX launch another round of Starlink satellites you may have seen the brilliant display in the sky shortly after. Sunlight from below the horizon illuminated the exhaust from Spacex's Falcon 9 rocket Sunday morning. [TRENDING: SpaceX launches 60 Starlink satellites | Weekend vaccine events for OCPS employees | Family speaks after deadly shooting]AdSunlight from below the horizon illuminated the exhaust from Spacex's Falcon 9 rocket Sunday morning. If you have any pictures upload them to the PinIt section (camera icon) on the free Pinpoint Weather app.
Move over, Santa. It’s 2020 and there’s a new witch in town
Read full article: Move over, Santa. It’s 2020 and there’s a new witch in townORLANDO, Fla. – It’s 2020 -- and less than two weeks until Halloween -- so it’s only appropriate that a witch was spotted flying Tuesday morning in the Florida skies. Well, technically, it was a cloud in the shape of a witch appearing to fly on a broom across the Orlando area. No word whether the witch is planning to hijack Christmas, but it is 2020, so ... If you have a photo you’d like to share with News 6, submit it at ClickOrlando.com/pins. Click here to subscribe to ClickOrlando.com’s Strange Florida newsletter, delivered every Friday.
What were those clouds over Central Florida? Saturday’s SpaceX launch created weird clouds in the sky
Read full article: What were those clouds over Central Florida? Saturday’s SpaceX launch created weird clouds in the skyORLANDO, Fla. – Night launches are great in and of themselves, but every now and then launches just before sunrise provide an extra treat for spectators. If you were up early Saturday to see SpaceX launch another round of Starlink satellites you may have seen the brilliant display in the sky shortly after. Full Screen 1 / 5 Photo submitted to PinIt by AHanleyClick here to view photo gallery on News 6 appThe clouds are created like the contrails you see leftover from jet aircraft as they fly through cold, dry air aloft. In this case, the trail of exhaust left by burning rocket fuel passed through an area of cold, dry air and quickly froze in the conditions. The sun reflecting off of the ice crystals illuminated the cloud above while the surface was still in darkness.
Falcon 9 explosion captured on doppler radar
Read full article: Falcon 9 explosion captured on doppler radarDoppler radar scans our skies looking for anything. Meteorologists obviously use it to detect rain, storms and other hazards, but the radar picks up non-meteorological targets from to time as well. Relatively new radar technology, however, confirms that the radar was in fact “seeing” a non-meteorological target. When the radar sees lowly correlated objects, hail, birds, insects or debris, it has lower values and shows up gray on the radar screen. In this case, the gray and blue color in the radar screenshot above is the explosion of the Falcon 9 rocket!
Holes in the sky? How cool weather, airplanes create these funny-looking clouds
Read full article: Holes in the sky? How cool weather, airplanes create these funny-looking cloudsThese unique clouds are known as hole punch clouds or fall streak holes as they are fairly common in the colder the months, but are less common in Florida due to the warmer climate. These clouds are made up of supercooled water droplets. Supercooled water is water that is still liquid even when temperatures are below freezing. After keeping it in the freezer for an extended period of time, the water inside the bottle will still be liquid. If you hit the bottle on the ground to disturb the water inside, you will see the water instantly freeze inside.