Airplanes Around Dallas Are Causing It To Snow

Lavatory ice (‘blue juice’) isn’t the only snow that planes cause to descend from the sky. When aircraft descend through below-freezing temperatures and high relative humidity (saturated air), they can create snow. Planes aren’t causing snowstorms – just a localized event – but under the right conditions they do cause snow to form and fall to the ground.

This requires water vapor that’s below freezing but that doesn’t form ice crystals because it lacks the particulates on which to freeze. Then, when the planes descends through the atmosphere, the water vapor forms snow on the aircraft’s exhaust. In addition, the lift around the plane’s wing causes ice crystals to form that previously couldn’t.

Planes landing at Dallas Fort-Worth airport have been causing it to snow around the Metroplex during unusual weather around Texas, the likes that hasn’t been seen in parts of the state in 30 years.

It’s a phenomenon that occasionally visits most northern U.S. airports every couple of winters, but it’s very unusual to see airplane-effect snow as far south as Texas. It’s a testament to the extremely cold air mass in place.

…The morning weather balloon launch from Fort Worth showed temperatures of 24 degrees at the surface and 42 degrees at 6,000 feet. That indicates an obvious inversion present. Moreover, the atmosphere was mostly saturated at that level and down to about 1,500 feet.

That meant that airplanes, which were landing from south to north, would pass through the supercooled droplet layer for several miles during their final approach, creating a strip of snow.

Cue the chemtrail conspiracies for sure, but in this case it’s planes and not Jewish space lasers that are controlling the weather.

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Comments

  1. Great story, I’ve never heard of such a thing. It did bring back memories of when I lived in Medford Oregon years ago. Thick morning fog was common in the valley where Medford is. It obviously is a problem for planes attempting to land at the Medford (MFR) airport. One morning while driving to work my route took me close to and perpendicular to the runway. As I slowly made my way through the very thick fog all of a sudden the fog disappeared and I had a clear view up to the very blue morning sky. Then I noticed the clear area was not a hole, but a linear opening that ran to and away from the runway. Then almost as quickly as I’d come into the clearing I was back in the fog. It wasn’t until later I learned they had a fog-clearing operation going.

    https://www.voanews.com/science-health/unusual-fog-clearing-apparatus-keeps-airline-passengers-moving

  2. Well, let’s see. This fits perfectly into the “climate change” sham being peddled and all the peripheral nonsense that goes with it and just adds another justification for the radical destructive steps being proposed and, unfortunately, implemented. But…..how can this problem be solved with the government who is now full in for this “theory” exponentially adding to it by continuing to feed the airlines money to stay in business.

  3. What a crock. This makes it sound like there is something more than a couple of flurries produced with no evidence whatsoever. Just like the climate change/global warming/coming ice age hoaxes for decades.
    Article says “there were some indications of potential airplane-effect snow”. Nicely worded hoax material there! Show ANY proof whatsoever that ANY little snowflake was produced by an airplane. We’ll wait. Like we are still waiting for Al Gore’s world to end 20 years ago.
    It’s a load of crap.

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