Wednesday, October 21, 2009




A Spectacular and rare

atmospheric phenomenon

seen over Windhoek for several hours this morning - a 'sun dog' ? usually only visible from polar latitudes. Anyone have a detailed explanation. Weather was rather cloudy, but other conditions normal.

1 comment:

BlueBell said...

It's called the Halo phenomenon (or optical phenomenon. Read more about it on Wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_(optical_phenomenon)