It was beautiful, and something I've never seen before. Wikipedia obliged me with an explanation for the phenomenon (relatively common, actually...but totally beautiful.)
Thursday, January 11, 2007
Sundogs
This morning my friend and I had to head out of town for a rural docket appearance. It's COLD here right now...freezing. We were driving down the highway with the sun on the horizon, in front of us and to the left. I caught sight of a short rainbow beside the sun...and shrieked with glee (can't shake the kid sometimes). My friend, who grew up in the North West Territories, exclaimed that it was probably Sundogs, and asked me, as navigator, to check and see if there was a matching one on the other side of the sun. Sure enough a pair of rainbows were visible flanking the rising sun.
It was beautiful, and something I've never seen before. Wikipedia obliged me with an explanation for the phenomenon (relatively common, actually...but totally beautiful.)
It was beautiful, and something I've never seen before. Wikipedia obliged me with an explanation for the phenomenon (relatively common, actually...but totally beautiful.)
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no way!! sounds transfixing.. i'd heard of sundog before, but never guessed it was phenomenon
That looks amazing. Good thing that happened out west. If that happened in Hogtown, people would act as if the world was ending.
I'd posted something about your Dr. Bob story but blogger didn't put up my comment and it's lost in cyberspace.
And now after I post that one, I see that you have to approve the posts before they appear... I swear, they do require that we have some powers of observation before they hire us.
: )
wow! a truly amazing phenomenon. i've seen rainbows appear in pairs before but that looks like there are 3 suns in the sky. yippee!
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