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Midday Altocumulus move thru the area and while passing through, I get a fine corona around the sun and later on lenticular cloud formations pass through showing fine iridescence. With sun getting sort of low, more AC roll in precipating…

Nick Beck has sent this high cloud halo display that he observed on Christmas eve in Florida. The sun elevation was 31 degrees when it started and the display ended when the sun was 7 degrees above the horizon, lasting…

On 13 December it was cold and windy on Mt. Wendelstein (1838m) in the German Alps with temperature of -17°C and huminity over 90%. The whole day ice dentrids glittered in the air ( 1 ). For 6 hours I…

The halo was observed in Brandbergen 20 km south of Stockholm Sweden. Time for the display was 1-dec-10 9:50 – 10:50 AM. There were snow guns running at two ski-slopes both of them 20 km away. I don’t know if…

On 27.11.2010 from 09.30 till 13.30 CET Claudia and Wolfgang Hinz could observe the depicted halo phenomena, comprising not less than 22 types of halos, in the German Alps of Upper Bavaria ( 1 ): – 22deg halo – left…

It’s better to be inside a punch hole cloud than just look at it. On the night of 17/18 November snow guns seeded a punch hole in low stratus cover at Mustavaara ski resort in Eastern Finland. Plate crystal dominated…

The display was seen at and/or just after high noon from eastern Nebraska about 41 degrees north, on November 7. My sister had called about some geese at a refuge nearby and wanted to go photograph them. I was going…

On 18 October 2010 a superb diamonddust halodisplay was observed at the meteorological station Sonnblickobservatorium ( 1 ) in the Austrian Alps (3106 m, 12°57’ E, 47°03’ N). Hermann Scheer, member of the meteorological team at the observatorium, took images…

The photo of these Wegener-arcs was taken in the Siberian Altai Krai by Alexander Kostenko on 12 August 2010. Further images can be seen in his album ( 1 )