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Cloud Hole Photographed by Satellite NASA’s Aqua satellite caught an arresting image of a strange, enormous weather system off the coast of Tasmania June 5, featuring a cloud hole wider than 620 miles at one point. Analysis by NASA scientists found that the hole was caused by sinking air associated with a high pressure system off the surface of the Great Australian Bight, a huge bay to the continent’s south. The oval-shaped hole was cut out from a blanket of marine stratocumulus clouds. High pressure systems often bring fair weather and clear skies, and that’s just what this one did, in spectacular fashion. “You could call it an anti-storm,” said NASA atmospheric scientist Patrick Minnis in a statement. keep reading

Cloud Hole Photographed by Satellite

NASA’s Aqua satellite caught an arresting image of a strange, enormous weather system off the coast of Tasmania June 5, featuring a cloud hole wider than 620 miles at one point.

Analysis by NASA scientists found that the hole was caused by sinking air associated with a high pressure system off the surface of the Great Australian Bight, a huge bay to the continent’s south. The oval-shaped hole was cut out from a blanket of marine stratocumulus clouds.

High pressure systems often bring fair weather and clear skies, and that’s just what this one did, in spectacular fashion. “You could call it an anti-storm,” said NASA atmospheric scientist Patrick Minnis in a statement.

keep reading