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Nina Gorenstein
West Lafayette, IN, USA
11/30/2021
05:27 pm

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Nikon Coolpix P900

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Cropped, combined

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Airplane contrails are considered a type of clouds. Their formation and behavior depends on atmospheric conditions (winds, humidity, etc.) at those altitudes where they are formed. Yesterday I saw an unusual "weaving" of initially parallel contrails. This happened very quickly, in less than one minute. The bottom photo is a part of the previous one, taken with a larger zoom.