An acquaintance of mine posted an image of this trail seen above Co. Kerry in Ireland. Can anyone tell me what would make that trail?
Looks like a standard contrail that’s been blown about a bit by high-level winds.
Looks like an ordinary straight contrail that’s been distorted by irregularly moving air to me.
Grand, thank you folks.
As soon as you see anybody write “surely a plane can’t do that” the answer is always, 100% of the time, “a plane did that.”
Alternatively, it could be a goose smoking a really big spliff.
A Great White Sperm.
The cumming of the Lord?
Patty Wagstaff practicing?
I’m unconvinced. Winds variable enough to cause that much “squiggle” should also have caused the contrail to diffuse more than this one has. And the abrupt end is not something an airplane can readily produce.
It looks more like a photography artifact than something actually in the sky.
I can’t see the link for some reason (stupid firewall) but I have a photo somewhere of a contrail involving great whirling loops across the sky. At a guess it was caused by a plane in a holding pattern for a not-too-distant major airport.
Contrails are cool.
Contrails can end abruptly since different layers of air can have different moisture contents.
A horizontal contrail tends not to wiggle that much, but a vertical one can really get wobbly quickly. If it was a fast climbing jet (which might easily be the case given the location), this could easily happen.
Yes, but this example looks unusually abrupt. Add in the excessive squiggle, and it seems suspicious.
Chemtrail. You mean chemtrail. We’re all being experimented upon.
Revelation 22:12 “Behold, I come quickly…”
My first thought was that it was a scratch or a hair but if you look, you’ll see that to the left of centre it’s partially obscured by the lower-level cloud. So my guess is that it’s from an aircraft coming in to land or taking off from Cork or Dublin airport.
Oh, please, people. It’s obviously evidence of an alien spacecraft. No other explanation is possible.
Are you all sure it’s not Smaug getting is daily exercise?
I was skeptical that it was a wind blown contrail at first because I’m a bit of a skywatcher and have never seen one distorted quite like that, but the first hit in a google image search for “squiggly contrail” is almost its twin, and they have two photos taken some seconds or minutes apart showing it get more squiggly too.