AMAZING!!
Over the past week, the arctic air mass (filled with lots of ice crystals) has been providing some tremendous pictures of halos and sun dogs. Even though New Mexico has not been entrenched in this air mass, one of the superb halo displays that one will ever see occurred in Red River yesterday. In this sunrise picture by Joshua Thomas, you can see not only the sun pillars, sun dogs, and tangent arcs that we have been seeing, but also some very rare optical phenomenon (notated by red arrows) that only occur once a year or even in a life time. Here is the annotation of his picture. A special thanks to Les Crowley from Atmospheric Optics who helped us identify some of the very rare phenomenon in this picture.
It seems hardly credible; in fact, it seems incredible except for the presumably reliable source. Does Howard (or anyone at HEP) vouch for such goings-on?
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Amazing and gorgeous!! I never saw, nor even heard of, sundogs until I moved here. But nothing to match that!!
ReplyDeleteI'm so glad we have photos and the internet. Otherwise I'd never see that in my lifetime. Just awe-inspiring.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Susan. Of course, my eyes being what they are I probably wouldn't see it even if it happen here.
DeleteBook discussion today: Jasper Fforde's . Maybe half said they enjoyed it and half, including me, didn't. But nobody really had much to say about it. That may be because the mysteries behind this weird setting won't be revealed until the third book of the trilogy. (The review that led us to choose this book didn't reveal that it was the first of a trilogy.)
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