The front that was moving through CA on Nov. 8th had reached the east slope of the Rockies at the time Sky2 made its video. I know, I was outside watching the humidity of it come down in white flakes. How is it that the conditions for a contrail quit in the video?
It was a transition zone between the pacific ocean and land perhaps and the air changed temperature aloft.
You see this happen everywhere, aicraft fly out of a zone that produces lasting contrails.
Snippet from the news article.
"Minnis then consulted a contrail "forecaster" put together by SSAI's David Duda and Rabindra Palikonda, who also work at Langley, and learned that conditions were "ripe" for persistent contrails over the Pacific west of Los Angeles, but that contrails would only survive for a short time closer to the coast."
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