Sure, says you, that is a sun – a remark faulted to the decreasingly effective imaging functionality of my saddest little Samsung, fatefully, now more effective as a communication device, a feature found far less fabulous than digifilming.Withal, follow a trajectory 45⁰ from the top of the passenger side windshield of the Jeep that will shortly have to swerve from the path of a distracted driver, and about 22⁰ above the horizon, note two brief swaths of discolored cirrus, at altitude with the sun, tinged red sun-side, then yellow to blue.
Not much to speak of by these images but the ethereal sundog was striking to the human eye, the colors extremely vibrant. The parhelia is the result of light refracted through plate-faced ice crystals – frozen cirrus clouds acting as a prism
Similar anomalies have previously resulted in worldwide foaming when concurring with disasters, averred predictive by the conspiratorial, ironic by the media, and coincidental by the rational.
2 comments:
neat! I haven't seen one of these either. I read the linked articles and found the Discover one quite hilarious. "I see these things all the time because...I look up," and the comment, "Run for your lives! A random coincidence is coming!"
Ha! He's a fellow UM alumnus, too, and has a great show on Discorvery called Bad Universe.
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