What in god's name is this?!

Not that rare. If you keep your eyes up a couple of days before a large front moves in you should be able to catch one. That being said, the one in this video is incredible.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_dog

They aren't rare at all in cold climates like we have here in Winnipeg. We'll see them frequently during the winter. This one's extraordinarily well formed, though.

I see moon dogs (paraselene) relatively often in the wintertime in Denmark. Never seen a sun dog (parhelion) before though.

Sun Dog was also the name of a very cool old Apple II game published about a million years ago.

Sort of looks like the town has a halo, doesn't it?

So where does the name "sun dog" come from? In my world, dogs don't look like floating halos of fire.

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What in god's name is this?!


Don't you know? That's the first sign of the Apocalypse!

spectacular example!