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. The aircraft’s exhaust and the rapid pressure change around the wing introduce particles and conditions that allow already supercooled liquid droplets to become ice crystals.
Planes in Denver caused a brief snow shower Saturday evening.
- Between 6:10 p.m. and 7 p.m. local time on Saturday, around a dozen mostly United flights landed on a north-south runway west of the terminals. The incoming flights flew through the cloud layer and left curved, loop-like radar signatures of light snow.
- United Express flight 5528, operated by SkyWest, came in from Williston, North Dakota. A snow trail matches that plane’s approach path.
- The airport was about 17°F with 10 miles of visibility — an no large-scale weather system to produce snow. Yet it snowed.
Similar phenomena have been seen in Chicago and I’ve covered it in Dallas. Planes on approach produced sudden pockets of snow seemingly out of nowhere. There’s snow near the airport and nowhere else. It’s not even chemtrail conspiracies or Jewish space lasers but planes actually controlling the weather.