Hole punch clouds in Alabama in 2003 (NWS-Mobile) and Mississippi in 2007 (AccuWeather/JWesley). Residents of New York and Vermont reported seeing a strange cloud in the sky on Monday, June 3, 2024.

When Peter Mongillo looked up at the Saturday afternoon sky and saw what appeared to be a massive tear in the clouds above Marysville, he did what any curious observer would do: He snapped a photo and ...

The cloud received its name due to the resemblance of a circular gap in the middle of a cloudy sky and giving the appearance of cloud streaks falling from the center. This is a rare phenomenon that ...

Residents of Wonthaggi, Australia (map) snapped pictures of a rare, rainbow-filled "hole punch" cloud on Monday. By the next day, the photos had gone viral with speculation about the unusual ...