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Post by metalsmith on Apr 21, 2016 17:33:28 GMT -5
Last week I saw a sun-dog ... this week another  I don't know if you're familiar with parhelia, but that's a spectrum in the sky / cloud, not a lens flare. I was watching the first flare sinking lower in the sky and then this happened!  So of course this week I watched it drop to the horizon again... then ...  |
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Post by Fossilman on Apr 21, 2016 19:09:02 GMT -5
Beautiful photos!!!!!!!!
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Post by rockjunquie on Apr 21, 2016 19:42:44 GMT -5
What a show!
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Post by victor1941 on Apr 21, 2016 21:07:49 GMT -5
That last shot is out of this world.
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Post by Fossilman on Apr 22, 2016 12:40:20 GMT -5
I will have to look in my photos,but I have a great photo of a "sun dog" while ranching in North Dakota-it was -55 below zero that morning,but a beautiful view of the sun dog!!!
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Post by metalsmith on Apr 22, 2016 13:23:52 GMT -5
Thanks for all your comments.
I first saw a sundog about 5 or 6 years ago as I was a passenger sharing driving shifts with the Mrs... I nearly fell out of my chair! I won't say I see them all the time now, but 2 or 3 a year is not uncommon and sometimes, like this, two or more follow sometimes day after day. I'd say that the 2 in 2 weeks is down to pretty constant atmospherics.
I don't recall seeing them before that, but now I see them, I see them.
Now you know what to look for - pic 1, keep a look out. Sometimes one each side, equidistant. Rarely a semi-circular halo - more likely in the extreme cold as fossilman will no doubt attest.
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Post by bushmanbilly on Apr 23, 2016 11:33:01 GMT -5
Up here sundogs mean cold weather ahead. Took this last Jan. Could not get both sides in the shot, to much equipment in the way. Plus I was to lazy to walk out further.   |
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Post by metalsmith on Apr 29, 2016 15:59:20 GMT -5
Up here sundogs mean cold weather ahead. Great stuff bushmanbilly ... correct me if I'm wrong is that not also a sun pillar? You could be right with the cold weather ahead forecast - it just snowed! |
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Post by metalsmith on Apr 29, 2016 16:01:56 GMT -5
This evening's sunset.  |
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Post by Fossilman on Apr 29, 2016 23:18:47 GMT -5
Up here sundogs mean cold weather ahead. Took this last Jan. Could not get both sides in the shot, to much equipment in the way. Plus I was to lazy to walk out further. Pulling Unit!! Those rigs are cold in the winter and hot in the summer!!!!!!! Worked them in 1972,I was 17 years old.... Got tired of them and joined the Army.. Got out and did another 22 years in the oil patch...LOL Sundogs do mean colder weather in North Dakota too........... |
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Post by Fossilman on Apr 30, 2016 9:54:03 GMT -5
Found the photo...Here is a North Dakota Sundog......  |
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Post by Intheswamp on Apr 30, 2016 10:11:36 GMT -5
Nice one, Fossilman!!!
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Post by metalsmith on Apr 30, 2016 17:22:00 GMT -5
Wow, full-halo ... excellent!
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Post by Fossilman on May 1, 2016 8:50:50 GMT -5
Here what happens a day after a "Sundog"!! It was day break,I was out feeding cattle in North Dakota,sun was just coming up and it was -43 below zero!! A tremendous sunrise with full rays......  |
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Post by bushmanbilly on May 6, 2016 11:32:40 GMT -5
Up here sundogs mean cold weather ahead. Great stuff bushmanbilly ... correct me if I'm wrong is that not also a sun pillar? You could be right with the cold weather ahead forecast - it just snowed! It could be called that. Been calling them dogs my whole life. Have never seen a full ring around the sun up here. |
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Post by bushmanbilly on May 6, 2016 11:36:56 GMT -5
Up here sundogs mean cold weather ahead. Took this last Jan. Could not get both sides in the shot, to much equipment in the way. Plus I was to lazy to walk out further. Pulling Unit!! Those rigs are cold in the winter and hot in the summer!!!!!!! Worked them in 1972,I was 17 years old.... Got tired of them and joined the Army.. Got out and did another 22 years in the oil patch...LOL Sundogs do mean colder weather in North Dakota too........... We call them Service rigs. I worked on both drilling and service rigs. I preferred the drilling rigs. Better pay and a day off schedule that one could plan around. 3 weeks on and 1 week off. Service rigs you might get a weekend off every now and then. |
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Post by jamesp on May 7, 2016 9:37:43 GMT -5
Learning new stuff. Awesome skies in cold country.
Looking at those guys out on that cold steel rig. Can not express how hurtfully cold that looks from southern eyes.
North folks on winter rig, Florida folks reproofing a house in summer heat. Rough work.
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Post by Fossilman on May 7, 2016 9:46:43 GMT -5
Learning new stuff. Awesome skies in cold country. Looking at those guys out on that cold steel rig. Can not express how hurtfully cold that looks from southern eyes. North folks on winter rig, Florida folks reproofing a house in summer heat. Rough work. Winter rigs and oilfield work and summer roofing,no wonder my body is beat up!!! LOL Did them both! |
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Post by jamesp on May 7, 2016 11:05:07 GMT -5
Learning new stuff. Awesome skies in cold country. Looking at those guys out on that cold steel rig. Can not express how hurtfully cold that looks from southern eyes. North folks on winter rig, Florida folks reproofing a house in summer heat. Rough work. Winter rigs and oilfield work and summer roofing,no wonder my body is beat up!!! LOL Did them both! Better than couch potato !! Retired aren't you ? Kick back and be proud of your aches and pains. |
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Post by metalsmith on May 7, 2016 15:39:56 GMT -5
It could be called that. Been calling them dogs my whole life. Have never seen a full ring around the sun up here. I said isn't that also a sun pillar. They're definately dogs alright, but look at the sun. Unless it was just a lensflare, then the line going vertically up from the sun may be a sun pillar. Examples |
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