Weather: January's Daily Weather # III, It's different!!!, 1 by Lilypon

Lilypon wrote:
Debi the sun get's some company when there is ice crystals in the air.

Sundogs (or parhelia; from Greek para, “beside,” helios, “sun”), bright spots, or mock suns, visible on either side of the sun when it is low in the sky, caused by the reflection and refraction of light from ice crystals of high sheet clouds; moon dogs are also formed in this way.

The name "sundog" is probably from old Norse and Greek mythology, when the world ends, the sun will be swallowed by a dog. The one before the sun is called "Gíll" and the one behind is called "Úlfur" (Wolf).


People believed that if the Sun had only one "dog", it was a bad omen, but two were for good news.........there were two the day of the blizzard. ;)



This message was edited Jan 14, 2007 11:59 AM