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07-12-2006, 04:06 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Little village called Chedworth
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| | | circle in the sky
Taken in Madagascar, irritatingly even flat on my back I couldn't fit it all in the picture. A rainbow around the sun.......
can anyone explain this in words for someone who knows very little about weather?    |
07-12-2006, 04:18 PM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: London
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| | | Re: circle in the sky
Not sure of the science behind it, but it's called a Sun Halo. Quote:
Originally Posted by Gill Catton  Taken in Madagascar, irritatingly even flat on my back I couldn't fit it all in the picture. A rainbow around the sun.......
can anyone explain this in words for someone who knows very little about weather? | |
07-12-2006, 07:05 PM
| | Wild Member | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Stockport, Cheshire
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| | | Re: circle in the sky
Quote:
Originally Posted by Gill Catton Taken in Madagascar, irritatingly even flat on my back I couldn't fit it all in the picture. A rainbow around the sun.......
can anyone explain this in words for someone who knows very little about weather? | There was / is a fantastic site with scientific explantaions of various weather related Phenomenon, explaned in as laymen a terms as is possible. I appear to have lost the address now.... I did find this which you might find useful.. Weather Phenomenon and Elements |
07-12-2006, 07:31 PM
|  | Frozen | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Leeds West Yorkshire
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| | | Re: circle in the sky
Halos, also known as icebows, are also optical phenomena that appear near or around the Sun or Moon, and sometimes near other strong light sources such as street lights. There are many types of optical halos, but they are mostly caused by ice crystals in cold cirrus clouds located high (5–10 km, or 3–6 miles) in the upper troposphere. The particular shape and orientation of the crystals is responsible for the type of halo observed. Light is reflected and refracted by the ice crystals and may split up into colors because of dispersion, similarly to the rainbow |
07-12-2006, 07:32 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Lincolnshire/Cambs/Norfolk border right on The Wash
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Now isnt that just absobloominlutly gorgeous Gill.
jaki
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08-12-2006, 08:29 AM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Little village called Chedworth
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Cool!
Thanks folks!!
websites bookmarked!!! I fnd myself regretting that I didn't dig myself a pit into the beach to try to get more of it into shot!! | |
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