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The rain came out of nowhere and then this happened. [oc]
Middle Cove, Newfoundland Canada.
u/calio88 — 1 day ago
Incredible Footage of a Supercell Over Nebraska
u/Mayaryussuf — 3 days ago
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First Circumhorizon Arc
Today, I caught these photos of a Circumhorizon Arc, though it's stupidly faint, like the Circumzenithal Arc that I posted a while ago. It was more vibrant a few minutes after this picture, but it faded before I got the time to take a photo.
Still though, it's a find.
u/Powerful-Moment234 — 1 day ago
Weird sun/moon/cloud interaction in Central NJ yesterday
What is going on here? I took these pictures from a moving car at about 6:30pm. Weather was dry with light cloud cover. This cloud formation appeared - moon is visible in the “hole”. Sun was behind the cloud to the left of the hole, and as we continued to drive, the sun appeared from behind the formation (sun moved to the left), but the formation continued to persist.
u/Salt-Patience7384 — 5 days ago
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The best cloud photo I've ever taken
Tulsa, Oklahoma- 2019
u/NeonEsquivalient — 4 days ago
Chattanooga, TN at 7:40pm ES 8/13/26
Photos taken from downtown facing Signal Mountain. The rainbow colors were insanely bright. It didn’t look real and was beautiful.
Edit: to see more pics from others click on my post in r/Chattanooga to see pics
u/CobblestoneBoulevard — 5 days ago
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I’ve never seen this before. It was around 430am in north Texas a few weeks ago. Multiple halos around the moon
u/rickandmortg — 4 days ago
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Sun dogs, or partial halo?
A small clip I took, and only later noticed the phenomena when watching it back.
00:05-00:08 and 00:17-00:22.
u/UISystemError — 4 days ago
Distant Toronto skyline or mirage? Shot from Oswego, NY across ~145 miles of Lake Ontario (278° bearing)
Captured this across Lake Ontario at sunset from Oswego, NY. Camera heading/bearing sits right around 278.17 True North, which points straight toward the Toronto metropolitan area (~145 miles away).
I am noticing weird vertical compression and some very blocky, distorted shapes along the horizon that look almost like a skyline mixed with floating structures. I am wondering if this is a legitimate long-distance Fata Morgana/superior mirage of Toronto, or if it's atmospheric distortion of something else entirely.
Hopefully, the images which I add contain the metadata required for someone to potentially analyze it:
As you can see from the screenshot, this picture was taken directly pointing at Toronto where the mirage was occurring. I used an iPhone 15 with 10x digital zoom to take this picture; I noticed something strange in the sky which did not look like clouds because they had rigid edges and appeared to dip below the horizon.
u/uhJxsh — 5 days ago
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Anticrepuscular rays?
The sun is behind me in this picture and I am certain it is not rain because of the angles
u/CR1MS4NE — 4 days ago
Anyone know what the green semi circle is above the sun during the eclipse?
u/Slimpickins1010 — 5 days ago
During a solar eclipse, something incredible happens under the trees: the gaps between the leaves project small images of the eclipse onto the ground.
u/NAStrahl — 8 days ago
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The 2017 was completely dark and a drastic change and the 2026 eclipse was not. Can someone help explain why?
I watched the 2017 eclipse in a field in Oregon. The change was drastic with temperature drops and immediate reactions from wildlife. The sky also went pitch black.
Watched this eclipse from the top of a hill in Leon, Spain. I guess the weren’t birds and crickets around this time, but the temperatures also did not drop significantly and the sky was still slightly blue and pink during totality.
Anyone have input on the scientific explanation for the difference between the two?
u/prunesandwich — 6 days ago