Get out the tin foil hats , folks , because this one is for your innercontrail conspiracy theorist . It turns out that airplanes can exchange the weather bypunching holes in the cloud .
In stale weather condition , some cloud banks can contain supercooled water — water that ’s below freezing , but still in swimming form . When an airplane flies through a swarm like this , it leaves a temperature first derivative behind the blue jet or propeller . This temperature fall is often enough to form frappe crystals in the supercooled swarm . These crystal then spread , and have the swarm to release rain and snow .
The effect is n’t enough to influence globular clime , but what it can do is radically switch the conditions around a small domain — like , say , an drome . grant to the researcher , these clouds can be found within 100 km of aerodrome up to 5%-6 % of the clip , and substantially more as you head up towards the poles .
perhaps that explains why it ’s unimaginable to have an on - time flight in Chicago 75 % of the metre .
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