Strange Sky Phenomenon Recorded Across Eastern U.S. Before Hurricane Sandy – Oct. 2012 [video]

Sheila Aliens
November 2, 2012

http://sheilaaliens.net/?p=1242 This phenomenon is called “Parhelia” — for more on that go here: http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/opt/ice/sd.rxml

NASA solar physicist David Hathaway captured the above photo (link below) in Huntsville, Alabama two days ago after seeing the strange rings surrounding the afternoon sun.

NASA’s Meteoroid Environment Office head Bill Cooke says that he had, “never seen anything quite like it.” Another onlooker, Kyle Winkleman, called it a “once-in-a-decade event.”

Spaceweather writes that the extremely rare apparition was “almost certainly connected to Hurricane Sandy”:

The core of the storm swept well north of Alabama, but Sandy’s outer bands did pass over the area, leaving behind a thin haze of ice crystals in cirrus clouds. Sunlight shining through the crystals produced an unusually rich variety of ice halos.

“By my count, there are two sun dogs, a 22 degree halo, a parahelic circle, an upper tangent arc, and a parry arc,” says Chris Brightwell, who also photographed the display. “It was amazing.”

http://www.petapixel.com/2012/11/01/amazing-photo-of-ice-halos-captured-in-th…

HERE is an info graphic naming all the parts of the parhelia: http://imageshack.us/a/img194/3299/photographercapturesrar.png

These were all recorded a few days or less prior to Hurricane Sandy making landfall.
Beautiful, strange, rare, and surreal o.o;!! Thanks to the uploaders for recording and sharing !

Sorry I know this one is kinda lengthy but it’s so pretty and strange 0.0!!