Light pillars occur when plate-shaped ice crystals are suspended in the atmosphere close to the ground. When the light reflects off of those crystals, it creates vertical beams of light that ...
Certain weather conditions are creating light pillars and sun dogs. This only happens when temperatures fall below 14 degrees and we have some humidity.
Light pillars are optical phenomena caused by reflections of light from tiny ice crystals suspended in the lower part of the atmosphere. They belong to the family of halos and are usually formed ...
Sun Pillar The same phenomenon can occur with the sun as the light source, called a sun pillar. This occurs as the sun is setting and the same plate-shaped ice crystals are present. The sun ...
(KTEN) - Pillars of lights were seen Monday night January, 20 north of Dickson, Oklahoma. These pillars of light come from light at the surface refracting when ice crystals are present. This happens ...