Streakers

It was cold last night and into this morning. Add to the mix a cloud-free sky with fast, upper-level winds, and you get the heavenly art I witnessed this morning. All of the "clouds" in these images are jet contrails. The wide ones were laid down early, and since spread by those high-level winds. I've never seen this sort of display before (although seeing a few contrails simultaneously is not uncommon). Guess what this sky striping ultimately means is that Findlay, Ohio lies miles beneath an important traffic intersection in the sky.

posted October 30, 2005 | album(s): Nature