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Airplanes Unexpectedly Modify Weather

Posted by timothy on from the send-me-some-snow-planes dept.

reillymj writes "Commercial airliners have a strange ability to create rain and snow when they fly through certain clouds. Scientists have known for some time that planes can make outlandish 'hole-punch' and 'canal' features in clouds. A new study has found that these odd formations are in fact evidence that planes are seeding clouds and changing local weather patterns as they fly through. In one case, researchers noted that a plane triggered several inches of snowfall directly beneath its flight path."

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  1. catalyst by conspirator57 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    and first post?

    --
    "If still these truths be held to be
    Self evident."
    -Edna St. Vincent Millay
  2. denied. by conspirator57 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    epic fail

    --
    "If still these truths be held to be
    Self evident."
    -Edna St. Vincent Millay
  3. I think the first AC by snowboardin159 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    needs an IP ban. Lets try to keep this a titch classier.

  4. You sound even by snowboardin159 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    newer to /. than I, or for some reason cannot seem to login you coward.