There is no dearth of stories about UFO’s and other weird sightings in the sky. While a lot of them turn out to be work of some very clever photo editors, some times nature decides to show who is boss.
A United Arab Emirates citizen, Ibrahim Al Jarwan, who according to the Daily Mail is an astronomer and meteorologist, posted a video of hole in the sky. Doesn’t it look like a portal from Thor’s home Asgard? Marvel fans know what we mean.
In the video, you can see a large, circular patch of sky emerging from a heavy cloud and it was shot near the Oman border.
The video left UAE citizens perplexed:
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Later, Met office explained that this is a phenomenon that occurs when part of the cloud layer forms ice crystals that are so large that they fall as a ‘fallstreak’. “They form in clouds of supercooled water droplets, water below 0°C but not yet frozen,” the Met Office website explains.
“These water droplets need a tiny particle, a nucleus, to freeze or to be cooled below -40°C. This change in temperature can be enough to encourage the supercooled droplets to freeze and fall from the cloud layer in this distinctive pattern,” they added.
A fallstreak hole is a large gap, usually circular or elliptical, that can appear in clouds. Such holes are formed when the water temperature in the clouds is below freezing.