 Poster: A snowHead
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I think this is a meteorology question of sorts hence in the 'weather' forum...
Regrettably, I wasn't able to get a photo of this, as I was on a chairlift at the time with no access to my camera... but I saw a cloud today that was red and green.
The situation was... looking at a peak, the sun was behind it, with a few cotton wooly clouds above, and the clouds directly above the peak were lit red and green as if there were fireworks or coloured spotlights under them. I guess some kind of prismatic refraction was happening, although I haven't completely ruled out solar activity... so any experts want to hazard a guess what was causing this strange phenomenon? Never seen anything like it.
By the time I reached the top of the lift, the sun had peeked out over the mountain top, and the effect was totally gone.
Could it have been the light being split inside the cloud, or maybe split by snow on the ground on the back side of the peak and then reflected and projected onto the cloud? The GF and I were wearing completely different kinds of lenses at the time, none of which were polarized, so I've more or less ruled out any lens effects from our goggles/glasses (and we could both see it).
It was pretty fricking cool whatever it was.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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sundogs?
seen something that sounds simialr in Tignes (that I'm not sure was a sundog, cos I don't think it was at 23deg from the sun, or wherever they're sposed to be)
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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You need to Login to know who's really who.
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Feint, but one I managed to grab near Neuchatel / Pontarlier on the Swiss-French border one year... (will try to see if I have a Tignes one)
something like that?
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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andy, yeah kind of like that... looked a bit like a puddle of oil under a car!
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can't find the tignes one. that was kind of sun dog, and kind of clouds all lit up, but as you move up the chair lift and the sun comes in to view, the effect disappears. must be on a PC somewhere.
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Saw one of those in Verbier yesterday....was very nice
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in general there will be 2, with the other one the other side of the sun. sometimes there may be a full or partial ring halo rainbow.
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Scomber, one of the pics on that wikipaedo page looks pretty close - but I don't think these clouds were 'stratospheric'. They were yer mid-height wispy little cotton wool The Simpsons kind of clouds...
It was late morning, probably about 11am, if that helps with all this specific angle of incidence stuff!
Alternatively, perhaps someone spiked my mid morning coffee.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Another spectacular rainbow effect is a >Brocken Spectre<, where the sun is behind you so your shadow is projected on to it
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Scomber, yes, that's the badger.
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You know it makes sense.
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Perhaps it wasn’t Johnny in the basement mixing up the medicine
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