Above: Light Pillar

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Wacked Out Weather!
Wacked Out Weather
Wacked Out Weather

• Above Light Pillar

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Halos!

• Halos are optical phenomenon that appear near the
  sun, moon, or other strong light sources.
• They are caused by ice crystals in the cold
  Cirrus clouds in the upper Troposphere.
• The shape of the ice crystals will affect what
  type of Halo you see.
• Light is then reflected and refracted through the
  ice crystals, forming a Halo!

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• A sun pillar (also known as a Light Pillar) is
  similar to a Halo. Like a Halo they are caused by
  ice crystals that reflect and refract light so
  that it looks like a beam of light is shooting
  out of the sky.

Sun Pillars
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Crepuscular Rays!

• Crepuscular rays are merely rays of sun that
  appear to be coming from a single point in the
  sky.
• They are diverging columns of sunlight, which are
  separated by darker regions.

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Icebows!

• Icebows are extremely similar to rainbows. The
  only difference is that light shines through ice
  crystals and splits into an arch-shape.

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Sun Dogs!

• A sun dog is bright spot taking the shape of a
  circle on a solar Halo.
• Sun dogs typically appear when the sun is low in
  the sky. (such as the above)

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Raining Animals!

• First, no, animals are not literally raining.
• All it is are animals falling from the sky
  because of either strong winds or water spouts,
  which are tornadoes over water that suck water
  upward and throw them up to several miles away!

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Thundersnow!

• A Thundersnow is really rare. The only difference
  between it and a thunderstorm is that snow falls
  as the primary precipitation.

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Rainbows!

• Rainbows are beams of light that have been split
  into color by water droplets or mist.
• Sometimes, there is a double rainbow in the sky.
• There is no end of a rainbow.

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Diamond Dust!

• First, all Diamond dust is a ground level cloud
  made up of ice crystals.
• Diamond dust is mostly polar.
• Although it is like fog in the way that it is
  ground level, it does not reduce visibility.

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The Novaya Zemlya Effect!

• The Novaya Zemlya effect is a polar hallucination
  that gives the impression that the sun is rising
  earlier than it should be.
• On occasion, it will also give the illusion that
  the sun is a rectangle or line shape.

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