A giant hole opened in the sky over Georgia. ☁️⭕️ It looks as though something punched straight through the clouds—but this strange formation is completely natural. Known as a fallstreak hole, it forms when supercooled water droplets inside a cloud suddenly freeze into ice crystals and fall away. The result is one of the strangest shapes the atmosphere can create. The sky didn’t break. It froze. Have you ever seen this?

August 12, 2026 by fatmizo

🌌 What Is a Fallstreak Hole?

Fallstreak hole (also called a “hole-punch cloud”) forms in altocumulus or cirrocumulus clouds.
These clouds often contain supercooled water droplets—liquid water that remains unfrozen below 0°C.
When something triggers freezing (like passing aircraft or natural disturbances), the droplets crystallize into ice.
The ice crystals continue reading …

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