CyanSquirrel (23 Dec 2008)
"Re: Has Anyone Ever Seen Anything Like This?"

 
According to spaceweather.com, what you saw is described as follows:

SUNDOG ALERT: Winter weather storming across the northern USA and Canada is filling the air with ice and filling the sky with ice haloes. "These sundogs appeared during our ground blizzard yesterday," reports Steve Yezek of Grafton, Iowa:

"It was very cold outside with temperatures below zero, and there were strong, gusting winds," he says.

Similar conditions in Omaha, Nebraska, produced a double halo around the sun. In addition, onlooker Tyler Burg witnessed "sundogs, a segment of a supralateral arc, and an upper tangent arc that persisted for the better half of 4 hours. It was a nice display."

Readers, if it's cold where you live, bundle up, go outside, and look at the sky. The sundogs are barking!



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CyanSquirrel