My event occurred during the 1987 massive coronal mass ejection. I happened to be out at 3am in the morning when the even occurred and it was the first time in 100 years that the northern lights had been seen that far south. However, this was not northern lights as you see them when you take a trip to Norway, or what you see in pictures. It was columns of multicoloured beams much like in this video.
In all of my 53 years of living in MA., I had never before witnessed Sun halos, Sundogs, or Moon halos (I have always been an avid skywatcher because my Godfather was an astronomer). Over the past 4 years however, I am seeing and filming all three of these "rare phenomenon" nearly every day and night now.
@@DiscipleOfHeavyMeta1 Alas, alas. You have my sympathies. So much will be lost to the world in the decades to come. I'm 62 and in good health. I have children as young as 16, and grandchildren. My final years will be sad ones.
I live in southern Michigan and the first time I saw light pillars was in the car. I thought I was going nuts. (Until I googled it). I have also seen sun pillars multiple times since then. Absolutely gorgeous.
Thanks for sharing. Here is something different… Cumberland Falls in southern Kentucky is one of the few places in the world where, at night, the mist from the falls reflects the moon in such a way that there is what is called a moonbow. It is a nighttime equivalent of a rainbow.
I've seen light phenomenon like this before. Just this past winter I was driving over a mountain and I saw two glowing balls of light behind the clouds on the horizon. I swore I was seeing two suns, or some alien aircraft. It's very cool to finally see a scientific explanation for what I saw.
There's a type that will dance across the cloud tops with incredible speed. Would definitely have been a "sign" to people who didn't understand what's actually happening!
@@fnxl11 I don't mind you believing in a god, that's all personal. I could see how that could be viewed as a sign, but as we can see, it's an illusionary effect regardless if it's a sign or not. If you seen how prisms can bend light, just imagine millions upon trillion of micro of ice crystals in the air achieving basically that exact same thing, but giving a different result because of how tiny these micro ice prisms are when looking at these weather phenomenon. I consider myself an atheist, but I would use that scientific information to make appreciating God's creation more worthwhile. It would give an insight at how they've meticulously structured the world around all of us
I live in Denmark. I have never seen the pillars, but the bi-suns, heavenly smiles and rings around sun and moon lots of times. It’s stunning to see these. I have photos of some,of the phenomenon.
These are common in Michigan in the cold winter months. They also appear at night as well with street lights or light towers at rail yards & airports. I've also seen these in moonlight. They are spectacular. Sun pillars are beautiful over Lake Huron or Lak St. Clair.
I remember a rainbow effect 2 years ago during the summertime in Newmarket Ontario. I was out for a walk and the sky had a VERY fine blanket of cloud. I noticed a rainbow but I couldn't locate it. I looked around and realized I was seeing the arch upside down. I looked straigt up and there was a series of circular rainbows around the sun, but they stretched out quite broadly, so that you couldn't see a complete perfect ring, but you could see quadrants of each ring VERY clearly.
Something I’ve always love about your videos, Alex. Is the click bait type titles that turn out not to be click bait.. it’s serious awesome material that fits the title! 😊🎉
I saw a sun pillar in the western US when I was about 10 or 11! I don't recall what the season was, but I do remember seeing this distinct and oddly almost rectangular pillar above the sun as it was westering towards the mountains. Really kinda freaked me out, lol.
I watched your previous video on this subject while on holiday late in the evening on my hotel balcony. I looked up mid video and saw my first ever ice halo. It was a one in a million moment!
Sometimes I get stuck seeing light pillars when usually they are inocouos and don't get seen. Once you notice them it's almost annoying because its eternal. Next time you drive at night take notice that every light source you see has a light pillar attaching it to your windshield. Sorry if you can't unsee them for awhile.
It's three months past this video's posting, but I just got one of these the other day. It was a variant of the supralateral arc, but present with the sun at noon/near-azimuth and a few days out from the Summer Solstice.
Video title: Scientists still don't know how these form. Goes on to explain in excruciating detail EXACTLY how these form, documenting over a century of accumulated global knowledge about them complete with images, simulations and recreations. PLEASE don't go the way of the 'Clickbait' channels, it absolutely destroys any scientific credibility you have.
it was really awesome seeing your video about the ice halos, then later seeing the most vibrant moon halo taking up what felt like the entire sky. never witnessed that before, and it happened multiple nights in a row my kids loved staring at it til they fell asleep
This reminds me of a guy I used to work with that was convinced there was a second sun or planet that you would only see when the sun goes down, it in the east on the horizon. He would go on and on about it and although he had pictures on his phone I'd look every once in a while in the evening and never saw it. Maybe he was seeing something like this? I don't know, the guy was pretty wack. I think he was let go at some point because one day I realized I hadn't seen him for a month.
Only one of these I don't remember if I've seen is the last one; the supralateral arc. Spectacular light pillars from street lights and the like are pretty common here during winter. 🙂
I've seen rings around the sun in the middle of the day and always wondered why there's an area of dark around the sun surrounded by the ring of light. Crazy to think that is ice so high up that it stays frozen in those hot, African summer days
I've seen a light pillar once, on a very cold but calm night as the full moon set over the Baltic sea... Quite a spectacular image, with the somewhat reddish light extending from the shore to the sky. Unfortunately, this was before smart phones were a thing, so no images.
The phenomenon I experienced a few years ago in Belgium in August, to quote Magritte, I call it "This is not a Moon". It was at night around 11PM and thought it was very bright, must be the full moon. I checked outside and saw a somewhat ghostly moon 10 times larger than usual. I thought I had entered the "Twilight Zone" till I noticed the real moon in a corner behind. Turned out it was a cloud which had took for a few minutes a lenticular shape and was showing to me a zoomed moon.
Funny, I was a kid my dad and uncle were in the front seat on the highway. My uncle said to my dad "what is that" my dad said it's the moon and my uncle said "that's not the moon". Mt dad answered like he was dumb. Anyway I saw it, I was a moon that was about ten times the size of the moon, and not more than. 5 minutes later I saw the moon again at its regular size in a different part of the sky. Glad I heard of this moment not just being us.
Its amazing how many different atmospheric light phenomena there are. I was amazed to find out about all the different rare kinds lightning found at high altitudes like red sprites and blue jets.
Finally totally explains the seemingly unexplainable Light Pillar I saw around 2010ish! I was driving to work eastbound in the north Bay Area at sunrise, I had never seen anything like it even to this day.
When H. G. Wells described a worldwide "freemasonry" of aviators called Wings Over the World, which he thought would bring world peace by refusing to allow aerial warfare, I imagined that the roundel on their planes would be a circular rainbow with a tiny black plane in the center, in honor of that phenomenon.
I got a photo of some clouds that to me look like Phoenix after looking at the photo you can see a rainbow on one of the wings. Cool picture I love it. ❤
Thank you for explaining what my wife and I saw this winter in SW France , The sun was setting an hour away and in the western sky to the north was a bright light looking like a smaller sun in the clouds but it also had rainbow colours in it , sorry it’s difficult to explain but , fifty years of being an interested sky watcher I’ve never seen this phenomenon, glad it’s been cleared up ,,I took some photos with the phone that came out quite well ,
I did see a sun pillar once, actually! Tho I didn't know how it was called. I took pictures of it and my friends were like "dude that's just the sun rising"
Having lived in high altitude Mountains most my life, you see some with things in the winter. Personal wildest one that I've only seen one article on it, but spontaneous lightning, the theory is pollution makes ice crystals conductive, but I'll tell you there's nothing more fear inspiring. A sunny but windy day, back country skiing, out of nowhere an explosion ripped through the sky somewhere above. And a flash of light barely visible through the glare of the snow. Thought we got caught in an unannounced avalanche mortar.
That's what I see every day and night. When minus temp hits hard and the skiing slope starts its snow blowers - magic happens. A lot of light shows going on. Light pillars, hallo, cars with high beam om - you name it. In Lapland.
@@katiekawaii I saw a beautiful lunar halo here in 2019. They are rarer but you can still see them because the ice crystals form at such high elevations. There was also a recent hullabaloo in Las Vegas because people saw light pillars and thought they might be aliens.
Just last week I was driving west an hour or so before sunset and saw a distinct rainbow to the right of the sun. It was slightly elongated vertically but otherwise was completely still. At first I thought it was a problem with my sunglasses but I took them off and it was still there. I checked the left too and there was nothing, just on the right. Haven’t been able to find anything online about it. Fascinating stuff and great video!
One night we were looking at the moon at night and it had a massive halo around it. Pretty cool. Obviously was just caused by some atmospheric properties. Was pretty cold night also.
I remember being young at my cousins house and it was a clear summer day, and there was a perfect circle rainbow around the sun, it was so amazing to see, and I have no idea how it happened since it wasn't a time for ice!
It doesn't matter if it is summer. Remember, way up at higher altitudes, ice crystals can be in the atmosphere. This is how it happens during the summer. Ever see a big ring around the moon? That is caused by the same tiny ice crystals.
I saw a phenomenon like that when I was flying over Greenland on sept 20 2021 and took a pic of it. Thought it was just some reflection from the sun from the ice or smth.
4:10 Falun, that's my home town 😃 And the reason we often get those pillars is due to the sport arena Lugnet that has many snow cannons at one side of the town and then we have a ski slope in Källviken at the other side of town also running many snow cannons in the beginning of the winter. And Falun is in a valley between those so all the ice fog often stays there and the whole town gets foggy. This winter before we had any natural snow this ice fog from Lugnet triggered the moisture in the air to form snow along a streak of 5km from the snow cannons. So there was like 5-8cm of snow in that area and nothing elsewhere.
I live in an apartment with a nice view. Whenever it’s cloudy, I can see a red glow in this one specific spot on the clouds. Since it’s always there when there are clouds, I think it must be a reflection of some red light source on the ground, but I haven’t figured out what that source is or why it would make the clouds glow. I’ll try triangulation later
Thanks, Alex. Beautiful video. Only weird thing I've seen so far is a double rainbow a month ago. Not much in comparison, but it made for a great ending to a rainy summer afternoon. Cheers.
My super religious family would just believe this was God or some angel. Now we have an actual scientific explanation. It seems as time goes on, more and more strange events can be explained by science and that's a really good thing for humanity.
4:30 jumping to conclusions is also assuming that every "sighting" are merely ice crystals reflecting the sun. These reflective phenomena dont move at mach 13 making zig-zag turns to a stationary observer, nor are picked up on radar, nor emit jamming EM signals towards a jet fighters targeting pod.
During an eclipse I watched from Idaho a few years back, I could have sworn I saw what looked like ribbons of plasma around the edges of the sun. None of the photos taken depicted this though, and I've not heard anyone else talking about it. I suspect I imagined it, or misremembered, but perhaps there was some sort of optical illusion at play.
intriguing.. i have noticed the past recent full moons at night in a clear sky to produce an odd “halo” effect to its bright light.. “the more you know”.. thanks!
I've seen this event two times in my life, it was the strangest thing I've ever seen. I showed it to other people and we were perplexed. Thanks for the explanation
Living in the Northern latitudes i have seen most of these Ice crystal sights from Paraselene to light towers, always for the most part a Winter event, never thought much about it, I explain it to children as it was explained to me as a child
march 26 kearney nbr looking west there was a ice storm and to niight a ice halo came into appearance just as the vsun was going down. i captured a photo. wow
I was driving through rural farmland in mid winter. Nighttime, no light pollution, late ‘90s. I suddenly noticed that a bright light, like a spotlight pointed straight up in the sky, was moving to intercept my road from the right. I couldn’t see where the light originated. The light crossed a few hundred yards in front of me and continued on to the left. I knew a road was up there, so i assumed some type of vehicle had a spot light on it. Then I realized that there were many stationary lights around me, all pointing straight up like spot lights. I stopped and got out. There were 6 stationary lights around me, and a few brighter moving ones. I was just starting to think of aliens when a car created the hill in front of me and I saw it was the source of a vertical line of light. Every light source out that night refracted a bright vertical line of light straight up for hundreds of feet.
I saw a pillar as a kit, in the late 80s. It was so uncommon, people were calling the cops about UFOs. I saw my second one a few months ago, but my phone camera passes too much IR, so it isnt well defined in the photo.
Truly amazing and beautiful! The key to knowing when these might be visible is to know what temperature it is up there and the giddy sounds of the meteorologist trying to hint at those who are interested to be looking.
Standing on the Arizona memorial, my brother and I saw a rainbow that spanned probably about 120° around us. But that's not the strangest part. Although the ends touched the ground, it's shape was not an arc. Rather, it followed the contour of the land, but about a handspan above it (a handspan at arm's length). Since this was in Hawaii, it's not very likely to have been caused by ice crystals in the air. Coolest rainbow I ever saw, if it even was a rainbow. It distinctly had all the colors of the rainbow, and not faintly either. The colors were vivid.
I noticed two Suns as I got out of my car one day, looked down, and saw that I was casting two distinct shadows. Looked up, and there they were, both too bright to look at directly. They were not low on the horizon, though; it was mid day or early afternoon, and there were definitely some thin cirrus clouds scattered in the sky. The second Sun was so bright and small that the difference couldn't be seen directly, but was clear in the differing darkness of the shadows. The double lasted less than five minutes. It was about 25 years ago, and I've never seen the phenomenon since.
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FINALLY 35 years later I have an explanation for what I witnessed! Thank you!
I've been telling this story all my life and people thought I was crazy!
My event occurred during the 1987 massive coronal mass ejection. I happened to be out at 3am in the morning when the even occurred and it was the first time in 100 years that the northern lights had been seen that far south. However, this was not northern lights as you see them when you take a trip to Norway, or what you see in pictures. It was columns of multicoloured beams much like in this video.
Omg right?!?!
@@monstrositylabs that’s sounds so cool!
@@monstrositylabs damn so lucky. Wish you had a picture of it. Would be amazing to look at.
I live somewhere cold, so these light columns and ice halos can be witnessed every Winter. Hard to believe it's so rare for some people.
Sucks to be us, I guess.
I hope global warming doesn't rob you of them.
@@arcadiaberger9204 Thing is, it probably will within a few decades.
In all of my 53 years of living in MA., I had never before witnessed Sun halos, Sundogs, or Moon halos (I have always been an avid skywatcher because my Godfather was an astronomer). Over the past 4 years however, I am seeing and filming all three of these "rare phenomenon" nearly every day and night now.
@@DiscipleOfHeavyMeta1 Alas, alas. You have my sympathies. So much will be lost to the world in the decades to come. I'm 62 and in good health. I have children as young as 16, and grandchildren. My final years will be sad ones.
@@demijones7873 I would have expected these to become more rare as the climate warmed, but of course it's also becoming more erratic.
I live in southern Michigan and the first time I saw light pillars was in the car. I thought I was going nuts. (Until I googled it). I have also seen sun pillars multiple times since then. Absolutely gorgeous.
What? I have lived in southeast Michigan my whole life and never have something like this ever happened. This is some Colorado mountain stuff.
I live in the pinky of the mit and I've seen the pillars before also
Thanks for sharing.
Here is something different… Cumberland Falls in southern Kentucky is one of the few places in the world where, at night, the mist from the falls reflects the moon in such a way that there is what is called a moonbow. It is a nighttime equivalent of a rainbow.
I've seen light phenomenon like this before. Just this past winter I was driving over a mountain and I saw two glowing balls of light behind the clouds on the horizon. I swore I was seeing two suns, or some alien aircraft. It's very cool to finally see a scientific explanation for what I saw.
One of the best YT channels. Cheers.
There's a type that will dance across the cloud tops with incredible speed. Would definitely have been a "sign" to people who didn't understand what's actually happening!
I don’t see a good reason to take anyone’s signs from them.
Why can't it be a sign anyway? Some things in this world don't stop being special just because we can explain them.
@@fnxl11 and @Brown don't illusion yourselfs , stay grounded in reality come on
@@la24dogg21 You have a very lazy approach to dismissing the other commenters point of view.
@@fnxl11 I don't mind you believing in a god, that's all personal. I could see how that could be viewed as a sign, but as we can see, it's an illusionary effect regardless if it's a sign or not.
If you seen how prisms can bend light, just imagine millions upon trillion of micro of ice crystals in the air achieving basically that exact same thing, but giving a different result because of how tiny these micro ice prisms are when looking at these weather phenomenon.
I consider myself an atheist, but I would use that scientific information to make appreciating God's creation more worthwhile. It would give an insight at how they've meticulously structured the world around all of us
I live in Denmark. I have never seen the pillars, but the bi-suns, heavenly smiles and rings around sun and moon lots of times. It’s stunning to see these. I have photos of some,of the phenomenon.
These are common in Michigan in the cold winter months. They also appear at night as well with street lights or light towers at rail yards & airports. I've also seen these in moonlight. They are spectacular. Sun pillars are beautiful over Lake Huron or Lak St. Clair.
I remember a rainbow effect 2 years ago during the summertime in Newmarket Ontario. I was out for a walk and the sky had a VERY fine blanket of cloud. I noticed a rainbow but I couldn't locate it. I looked around and realized I was seeing the arch upside down. I looked straigt up and there was a series of circular rainbows around the sun, but they stretched out quite broadly, so that you couldn't see a complete perfect ring, but you could see quadrants of each ring VERY clearly.
Saw the same thing in Barrie
Something I’ve always love about your videos, Alex. Is the click bait type titles that turn out not to be click bait.. it’s serious awesome material that fits the title! 😊🎉
I saw a sun pillar in the western US when I was about 10 or 11! I don't recall what the season was, but I do remember seeing this distinct and oddly almost rectangular pillar above the sun as it was westering towards the mountains. Really kinda freaked me out, lol.
I watched your previous video on this subject while on holiday late in the evening on my hotel balcony. I looked up mid video and saw my first ever ice halo. It was a one in a million moment!
I’ve only ever experienced light pillars once in my life. Truly fascinating and rare
Saw this happen in Orlando Florida a few years back. Was in between class periods and everyone was standing outside looking up at it. Very cool
Sometimes I get stuck seeing light pillars when usually they are inocouos and don't get seen. Once you notice them it's almost annoying because its eternal. Next time you drive at night take notice that every light source you see has a light pillar attaching it to your windshield. Sorry if you can't unsee them for awhile.
It's three months past this video's posting, but I just got one of these the other day. It was a variant of the supralateral arc, but present with the sun at noon/near-azimuth and a few days out from the Summer Solstice.
Video title: Scientists still don't know how these form.
Goes on to explain in excruciating detail EXACTLY how these form, documenting over a century of accumulated global knowledge about them complete with images, simulations and recreations.
PLEASE don't go the way of the 'Clickbait' channels, it absolutely destroys any scientific credibility you have.
it was really awesome seeing your video about the ice halos, then later seeing the most vibrant moon halo taking up what felt like the entire sky. never witnessed that before, and it happened multiple nights in a row my kids loved staring at it til they fell asleep
This reminds me of a guy I used to work with that was convinced there was a second sun or planet that you would only see when the sun goes down, it in the east on the horizon. He would go on and on about it and although he had pictures on his phone I'd look every once in a while in the evening and never saw it. Maybe he was seeing something like this? I don't know, the guy was pretty wack. I think he was let go at some point because one day I realized I hadn't seen him for a month.
Only one of these I don't remember if I've seen is the last one; the supralateral arc. Spectacular light pillars from street lights and the like are pretty common here during winter. 🙂
I’ve always liked watching the sunrise behind sea smoke. Now I have a better idea what I’m seeing. Thanks 👍
I've seen rings around the sun in the middle of the day and always wondered why there's an area of dark around the sun surrounded by the ring of light. Crazy to think that is ice so high up that it stays frozen in those hot, African summer days
I've seen a light pillar once, on a very cold but calm night as the full moon set over the Baltic sea... Quite a spectacular image, with the somewhat reddish light extending from the shore to the sky. Unfortunately, this was before smart phones were a thing, so no images.
These videos make me choke up. The world is so beautiful and science and reason allows us to see and understand more and more every day.
The phenomenon I experienced a few years ago in Belgium in August, to quote Magritte, I call it "This is not a Moon".
It was at night around 11PM and thought it was very bright, must be the full moon. I checked outside and saw a somewhat ghostly moon 10 times larger than usual. I thought I had entered the "Twilight Zone" till I noticed the real moon in a corner behind.
Turned out it was a cloud which had took for a few minutes a lenticular shape and was showing to me a zoomed moon.
Funny, I was a kid my dad and uncle were in the front seat on the highway. My uncle said to my dad "what is that" my dad said it's the moon and my uncle said "that's not the moon". Mt dad answered like he was dumb.
Anyway I saw it, I was a moon that was about ten times the size of the moon, and not more than. 5 minutes later I saw the moon again at its regular size in a different part of the sky.
Glad I heard of this moment not just being us.
Its amazing how many different atmospheric light phenomena there are. I was amazed to find out about all the different rare kinds lightning found at high altitudes like red sprites and blue jets.
Wow when did you hit a million subs?! Damn you've grown fast
Finally totally explains the seemingly unexplainable Light Pillar I saw around 2010ish! I was driving to work eastbound in the north Bay Area at sunrise, I had never seen anything like it even to this day.
I don't fly much anymore, so I miss seeing the rainbows around the shadow of the aircraft in the clouds. I've never seen any other phenomenon. ☹️
When H. G. Wells described a worldwide "freemasonry" of aviators called Wings Over the World, which he thought would bring world peace by refusing to allow aerial warfare, I imagined that the roundel on their planes would be a circular rainbow with a tiny black plane in the center, in honor of that phenomenon.
I got a photo of some clouds that to me look like Phoenix after looking at the photo you can see a rainbow on one of the wings. Cool picture I love it. ❤
Let's take a moment to salute those clever people in history who worked out this phenomena for the benefit of everyone 👍😀
Thank you so much for these videos..I appreciate your time and effort that is put in your work.
Thank you for explaining what my wife and I saw this winter in SW France , The sun was setting an hour away and in the western sky to the north was a bright light looking like a smaller sun in the clouds but it also had rainbow colours in it , sorry it’s difficult to explain but , fifty years of being an interested sky watcher I’ve never seen this phenomenon, glad it’s been cleared up ,,I took some photos with the phone that came out quite well ,
I've seen most of these, apart from nocturnal light pillars, during winters in Canada
I did see a sun pillar once, actually! Tho I didn't know how it was called. I took pictures of it and my friends were like "dude that's just the sun rising"
This is incredible!
Nature knows how to astound, effortlessly.
Having lived in high altitude Mountains most my life, you see some with things in the winter.
Personal wildest one that I've only seen one article on it, but spontaneous lightning, the theory is pollution makes ice crystals conductive, but I'll tell you there's nothing more fear inspiring.
A sunny but windy day, back country skiing, out of nowhere an explosion ripped through the sky somewhere above. And a flash of light barely visible through the glare of the snow. Thought we got caught in an unannounced avalanche mortar.
That’s incredible! Wow!
Here in Minnesota I have seen every kind of sun or moon halo. Lately it seems the night time light pillars from artificial light are more common.
1:38 Those aren't really rare here in Sweden, As soon as it gets below -15*C then they will appear.
That's what I see every day and night. When minus temp hits hard and the skiing slope starts its snow blowers - magic happens. A lot of light shows going on. Light pillars, hallo, cars with high beam om - you name it. In Lapland.
I've been blessed with seeing this twice in my life.
Absolutely drop-dead _gorgeous_ sight.
I'm so jealous! Not a lot of ice halos here in Los Angeles 😔
@@katiekawaii I saw a beautiful lunar halo here in 2019. They are rarer but you can still see them because the ice crystals form at such high elevations. There was also a recent hullabaloo in Las Vegas because people saw light pillars and thought they might be aliens.
Just last week I was driving west an hour or so before sunset and saw a distinct rainbow to the right of the sun. It was slightly elongated vertically but otherwise was completely still. At first I thought it was a problem with my sunglasses but I took them off and it was still there. I checked the left too and there was nothing, just on the right. Haven’t been able to find anything online about it. Fascinating stuff and great video!
Wow, I wonder how many ufo appearances can be explained by light halos.
One night we were looking at the moon at night and it had a massive halo around it. Pretty cool. Obviously was just caused by some atmospheric properties. Was pretty cold night also.
I remember being young at my cousins house and it was a clear summer day, and there was a perfect circle rainbow around the sun, it was so amazing to see, and I have no idea how it happened since it wasn't a time for ice!
It doesn't matter if it is summer. Remember, way up at higher altitudes, ice crystals can be in the atmosphere. This is how it happens during the summer. Ever see a big ring around the moon? That is caused by the same tiny ice crystals.
Which makes contrails hanging around to cover the sky make no sense. If it's truly water vapor, it should dissipate quickly in the cold air.
Super interesting
I've seen the diamond dust type of "light pillars" many times over the years. Usually on the coldest of days around here.
Awesome. Very interesting and beautiful phenomenon...
Ice halos are so cool to see in person. A couple months ago I saw one around the moon. They are so pretty.
I saw a phenomenon like that when I was flying over Greenland on sept 20 2021 and took a pic of it. Thought it was just some reflection from the sun from the ice or smth.
4:10 Falun, that's my home town 😃
And the reason we often get those pillars is due to the sport arena Lugnet that has many snow cannons at one side of the town and then we have a ski slope in Källviken at the other side of town also running many snow cannons in the beginning of the winter. And Falun is in a valley between those so all the ice fog often stays there and the whole town gets foggy.
This winter before we had any natural snow this ice fog from Lugnet triggered the moisture in the air to form snow along a streak of 5km from the snow cannons. So there was like 5-8cm of snow in that area and nothing elsewhere.
I live in an apartment with a nice view. Whenever it’s cloudy, I can see a red glow in this one specific spot on the clouds. Since it’s always there when there are clouds, I think it must be a reflection of some red light source on the ground, but I haven’t figured out what that source is or why it would make the clouds glow. I’ll try triangulation later
Thank you!
Thanks, Alex. Beautiful video.
Only weird thing I've seen so far is a double rainbow a month ago. Not much in comparison, but it made for a great ending to a rainy summer afternoon.
Cheers.
You must be in the southern hemisphere.
@@anastasiabeaverhausen8220 Indeed, I am.
@@anastasiabeaverhausen8220 I'm sure it gets cold enough in certain parts of southern hemisphere
4:20 damn, that a lot of legendary drops
I love black rings 😊❤❤
My super religious family would just believe this was God or some angel. Now we have an actual scientific explanation. It seems as time goes on, more and more strange events can be explained by science and that's a really good thing for humanity.
Well said.
4:30 jumping to conclusions is also assuming that every "sighting" are merely ice crystals reflecting the sun.
These reflective phenomena dont move at mach 13 making zig-zag turns to a stationary observer, nor are picked up on radar, nor emit jamming EM signals towards a jet fighters targeting pod.
Seen it a couple of times here in the arctic north of Norway. Both times it was extremely could winter sunny days.
How about a very large and bright ring around the moon, that persists for an hour or more, in winter.
Ive seen a Sun dog in the middle of Greenland on a misty day. Unfortunately it/they were too far apart for my camera. Very disappointing!
Your voice is so nice it sounds like you always have a big smile on your face.
So beautiful!
During an eclipse I watched from Idaho a few years back, I could have sworn I saw what looked like ribbons of plasma around the edges of the sun. None of the photos taken depicted this though, and I've not heard anyone else talking about it. I suspect I imagined it, or misremembered, but perhaps there was some sort of optical illusion at play.
intriguing.. i have noticed the past recent full moons at night in a clear sky to produce an odd “halo” effect to its bright light.. “the more you know”.. thanks!
I've seen this event two times in my life, it was the strangest thing I've ever seen. I showed it to other people and we were perplexed. Thanks for the explanation
Zodiacal light is a site to behold. Lovely post & great explanation. Thank you.
Living in the Northern latitudes i have seen most of these Ice crystal sights from Paraselene to light towers, always for the most part a Winter event, never thought much about it, I explain it to children as it was explained to me as a child
awesome video.. i've seen examples on Aurora Borealis live streams, thanks for the education!
I've seen some pretty cool ice halos while snowboarding on crystal mountain.
7:08 I’ve seems that! It looked amazing! Just randomly looked up in the middle of the day and there it was!
Up north, we see some incredible sun dogs and halos all winter, super pretty. The sun glares so much, so bright lol.
I've seen many of those but the rarest thing I've ever seen was ball lightning.....and was a little to close for comfort near it
If you spend enough time outdoors in snow country, you'll see lots of these effects. Falling manmade snow makes very cool ice halos.
I don't even do jewelery (because of my work), but that meteor ring is really cool.
march 26 kearney nbr looking west there was a ice storm and to niight a ice halo came into appearance just as the vsun was going down. i captured a photo. wow
Gorgeous
I was driving through rural farmland in mid winter. Nighttime, no light pollution, late ‘90s. I suddenly noticed that a bright light, like a spotlight pointed straight up in the sky, was moving to intercept my road from the right. I couldn’t see where the light originated. The light crossed a few hundred yards in front of me and continued on to the left. I knew a road was up there, so i assumed some type of vehicle had a spot light on it. Then I realized that there were many stationary lights around me, all pointing straight up like spot lights. I stopped and got out. There were 6 stationary lights around me, and a few brighter moving ones. I was just starting to think of aliens when a car created the hill in front of me and I saw it was the source of a vertical line of light. Every light source out that night refracted a bright vertical line of light straight up for hundreds of feet.
That’s wild and amazing!
When flying above clouds you can see a halo round the aircraft on the clouds below.
I saw a pillar as a kit, in the late 80s. It was so uncommon, people were calling the cops about UFOs. I saw my second one a few months ago, but my phone camera passes too much IR, so it isnt well defined in the photo.
Is this a reupload? I swear, I've seen a video exactly like this just a few months ago...
I defn saw a sub sun on top of a high mountain in the alps, above the clouds in the winter. It was like an angel floating in space in front of me
Sunglasses make spotting ice halos much easier. 😎 I see them at least a couple times a year. I saw a moon halo like a month ago.
Sun dogs can be found in northeastern Washington fairly regularly.
Here in Salt Lake City, I've seen a Sun Pillar and a Fire Rainbow. 😁
Saw ice pillars twice this winter and once last winter. They’re so cool!!
Saw a ball of lightning form once. Kinda turned itself inside out then shot down in a bolt.
light pillarrrrssss
Truly amazing and beautiful!
The key to knowing when these might be visible is to know what temperature it is up there and the giddy sounds of the meteorologist trying to hint at those who are interested to be looking.
I've seen what was in the thumbnail.... I called the cops 😅
Every summer I can see a rainbow pillar below the plains thunder heads on the opposite horizon of the true sunset. It's like a pillar rainbow.
Never seen a sun dog. In forty years, did you not go out in the day, or where you a night 🌃 owl
some months ago i did see a big halo around the moon one night. was quite cool
7:09 what's that called? I remember seeing this once in my hometown on an evening. 🙆
Oh damn i witnessed fire rainbows/ circumhorizontal arc 😲
Standing on the Arizona memorial, my brother and I saw a rainbow that spanned probably about 120° around us. But that's not the strangest part. Although the ends touched the ground, it's shape was not an arc. Rather, it followed the contour of the land, but about a handspan above it (a handspan at arm's length). Since this was in Hawaii, it's not very likely to have been caused by ice crystals in the air. Coolest rainbow I ever saw, if it even was a rainbow. It distinctly had all the colors of the rainbow, and not faintly either. The colors were vivid.
That's my favorite atmospheric phenomenon (I've never seen it myself).
I noticed two Suns as I got out of my car one day, looked down, and saw that I was casting two distinct shadows. Looked up, and there they were, both too bright to look at directly. They were not low on the horizon, though; it was mid day or early afternoon, and there were definitely some thin cirrus clouds scattered in the sky. The second Sun was so bright and small that the difference couldn't be seen directly, but was clear in the differing darkness of the shadows. The double lasted less than five minutes. It was about 25 years ago, and I've never seen the phenomenon since.
That’s awesome!
Would you cover the Earthquake Lights or the insane Cyclone Freddy?
How about a video on the different types of upper-atmosphere lightning?