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TransporterOffline t1_ja7m8a7 wrote

Yep, it's a partial sun dog. I saw it a while ago in the north end of the county. I've seen the off and on the past couple weeks even though I always thought they were most common on bitter cold, clear days.

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Sun dog

>A sun dog (or sundog) or mock sun, also called a parhelion (plural parhelia) in meteorology, is an atmospheric optical phenomenon that consists of a bright spot to one or both sides of the Sun. Two sun dogs often flank the Sun within a 22° halo. The sun dog is a member of the family of halos caused by the refraction of sunlight by ice crystals in the atmosphere. Sun dogs typically appear as a pair of subtly colored patches of light, around 22° to the left and right of the Sun, and at the same altitude above the horizon as the Sun.

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