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https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2019/1/30/18203661/polar-vortex-2019-photos-midwesta kennedy
(29,673 posts)malaise
(269,054 posts)Get thee to the greatest page for visibility
dalton99a
(81,515 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(57,489 posts)Very bright sun dogs in Fargo, North Dakota. Also visible are parts of the 22° halo (the arcs passing through each sundog), a sun pillar (the vertical line) and the parhelic circle (the horizontal line).
A sun dog (or sundog) or mock sun, formally called a parhelion (plural parhelia) in meteorology, is an atmospheric optical phenomenon that consists of a bright spot to one or both sides of the Sun. Two sun dogs often flank the Sun within a 22° halo.
The sun dog is a member of the family of halos, caused by the refraction of sunlight by ice crystals in the atmosphere. Sun dogs typically appear as a pair of subtly colored patches of light, around 22° to the left and right of the Sun, and at the same altitude above the horizon as the Sun. They can be seen anywhere in the world during any season, but are not always obvious or bright. Sun dogs are best seen and most conspicuous when the Sun is near the horizon.
2naSalit
(86,646 posts)And we didn't have the sense to shut down services to keep people safe. I still had to make my runs in the semi all over WI and IL. It doesn't look any different now. I'm just glad I'm retired this time, it can be scary when your transmission freezes up in the middle of nowhere... when the engine dies, you will be following shortly behind it.
For some reason this is all east of the Rockies, where I live now, and that kind of winter weather is normal here. Right now it's +45F and probably going to hit +50F today, and that's really not normal since we have had few winter weather days. There is very little snow on the peaks of the mountains that I can see, most are bare except for the cornices.
akraven
(1,975 posts)But we experience, here, these temps every single year.
https://accuweather.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/c5b052b/2147483647/resize/590x/quality/90/?url=
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