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Cloud of the Day: Contrail with dangly bits

Lacy dangling bobbles

The hanging blobs are called pendules and are caused by wake turbulence. No prizes for guessing that chemtrail conspiracists think they are something far more sinister, though what, exactly, isn’t at all clear. A bit like the sky for most of today, then.

Author admin2Posted on Fri 4 May 2012Tue 10 Sep 2013Categories Weather

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