KSN viewer, Karri Penner, recently captured a photogenic atmospheric phenomena. The picture below was taken on Sunday morning, January 16, 2022, in Wichita. There are two features in this picture to ...

Sundogs are an optical phenomenon associated with the reflection/refraction of sunlight by the numerous ice crystals that make up cirrus or cirrostratus clouds. The small, flat, six-sided crystals ...

Any reference will tell you the Novaya Zemlya effect is a polar mirage — and it is. But Novaya Zemlya-like effects are not limited to the Arctic. The Novaya Zemlya effect is an atmospheric refraction ...

WHILE in a rowing-boat on the ocean during a sultry afternoon this summer I observed a very peculiar series of refraction phenomena that seem worth describing. A thunderstorm was brewing in the ...

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