Sundogs are an optical phenomenon associated with the reflection/refraction of sunlight by the numerous ice crystals that make up cirrus or cirrostratus clouds. The small, flat, six-sided crystals ...

Any reference will tell you the Novaya Zemlya effect is a polar mirage — and it is. But Novaya Zemlya-like effects are not limited to the Arctic. The Novaya Zemlya effect is an atmospheric refraction ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - After two rounds of wintry weather earlier in the week, skies cleared this morning and we saw our coldest temps in over two years with the loss of cloud cover -- our atmospheric ...

WHILE in a rowing-boat on the ocean during a sultry afternoon this summer I observed a very peculiar series of refraction phenomena that seem worth describing. A thunderstorm was brewing in the ...

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