Thanks to all who replied with providing "Sun Dogs" as a name for the
phenomenon. I've known it, but forgot to mention. (I think it was
also mentioned in the article I rerefenced, but I might be wrong.)
Bill, that's interesting! Having lived for about half of my life just
north of 55 N, and enjoying many long and cold winters, I don't
remember seeing anything like that myself.
Igor
Bill Tue, 17 Feb 2015 15:19:10 -0800 wrote:
We call them Sun Dogs here, and they are about as common as cold days
(which means very common).
They probably happen a dozen or more times a winter here.
bill
On Tue, 17 Feb 2015, Igor PDML-StR wrote:
Three Suns have been seen today in Chelyabinsk. This is due to a relatively
rare halo effect caused by ice crystals formed in the air as a result of a
sharp temperature drop down to -23 -- -25 C (-9 -- -5 F).
Here is the best description I was able to find in English:
http://rt.com/news/233143-halo-chelyabinsk-three-suns/
Here are plenty of images already found by Google:
http://goo.gl/7dcA8b
Chelyabinsk is a large (well over 1 mln in population) city in Russia, in
Ural Mountains. You might remember that two years ago, there was a large
meteor explosion over Chelyabinsk.
It has been on many Russian website for some 7-10 hours by now, and just
started trickling to the Western English-language websites.
Enjoy!
Igor
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