A sunbow is similar to a rainbow, but it’s created with ice instead of water. [Photos by Jon Morgan]
Today, folks near Bayside in northern Humboldt and beyond may have seen this unusual sight. Double sunbows, also known as solar halos, are relatively rare occurrences. They require very specific atmospheric conditions, including high, thin cirrus or cirrostratus clouds containing ice crystals. The alignment of these crystals with the angle of the sun must be just right to produce the vivid concentric rings. While single sunbows or halos are more commonly observed, the appearance of a double sunbow is a much less frequent phenomenon, making today’s display over Bayside a particularly special and memorable event.
UPDATE 2:51 p.m.: Polly Kinsinger sent us this beauty from Buck Mountain.
by Polly Kinsinger
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Sunny Brae
South of Eureka
Notice the lines across the sky today above Humboldt Bay and in the picture. Chemtrails? F16s and 35$ out of Sacramento running anti Soviet submarine tracking missions just off our coast in International waters? It’s the Russians! Nah, man caused climate change. That’s it!
‘chemtrails’, riiiight.
I remember some 40 years ago the military determined that this was an uninhabited area and the outbound high altitude spy planes coming out of the Sacto area would break the sound barrier right over our heads.
They have been spraying hard up there today!
I was at Dows Prairie today when I spotted he double rings. Wow, is all I could say. I feel lucky to see something so rare. What kind of camera did you folks use? I don’t have one that will take sky pictures that show any color.
I got one of them fancy phones with a fancy camera,
but about 6 years ago I got a pretty good picture with a hundred dollar camera from Target.
Arcata noonish friday
I’ve always called them :Sundogs”.
https://www.google.com/search?q=sundogs&sca_esv=9209e9bec81e467c&sca_upv=1&sxsrf=ADLYWIIHOHO3XqoJsJQBXcOxuYxHxrmiwA:1718410719364&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&vet=1&fir=wc4Ao5dS82WkWM%252CGB2S-b0s7I_aRM%252C_%253BmdsWam0PgUli9M%252CqhBTrBHEPv_XhM%252C_%253B9xW-KvALqb0RiM%252CwjoibGs2lZAf8M%252C_%253B2_lx5jcowKNclM%252C62QWDOzHUz5DkM%252C_&usg=AI4_-kRtfnjSFs3imreLWU1GKAB-yUH2uA&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiayoXkqtyGAxW2JzQIHTFgDAcQ_h16BAgsEAE#imgrc=9xW-KvALqb0RiM
Sundogs are also known to feature additional arcs. The first image is a record made by Sumerians 3600 years ago. The second was taken from a video recorded in Finland on 11/18/2020.
100%
Seen near weaverville as well.
When I saw it, about 2:30 pm, the outer circle was a nearly straight line, wider than the main circle, that evolved into a circle. Circumhorizontal arc.
Trump did it…for his Birthday 🤣😂🤣
Well all very pretty but do you notice the chemtrails. That is causing a lot of the wierdness in the sky. Soon the will be writing something instead of going in a straight line. This is not good stuff people. Pay attention
Im glad at least 1 other person is looking up too! I’ve been watching this happen for the last 12 to 15 years. Pretty wild stuff up there sometimes. W’s, loops, rows of X’s, spraying in formation, fuel tankers refueling jets mid air… Whether its Chemtrails or just jet exhaust, you can’t deny that on some days all that shit just hangs in the air and sinks down into the valleys For us to breathe. On days like that, it will be a clear blue sky in the morning and then end the day with a milky low hanging haze in the air and pale blue sky, no natural clouds during the day, just jet clouds. Fucking gross! Where is the carbon tax on that shit?
It’s the water vapor in the exhaust condensing way up at 30,000 ft. Cuz it’s cold up there. Some weather days are different than others. The contrails move along with the upper atmosphere relative to the planet surface.
Aircraft fly regular designated routes over the ground between say SF, Seattle, and LA. A plane might fly over Humboldt every fifteen minutes, as the atmosphere might be moving East en mass at 60 mph.
Yeah, try and tell people about the
Chemtrails. They claim it’s just condensation, Fucking sad when you can see it and it wasn’t like this 30 years ago or when I was a kid. People don’t want to know they are slowly being poisoned. They’d rather live in the dark. And yes it’s really fucking gross what they are doing, and ruining perfectly nice sunny days. Not too mention, WTF is in that shit that is floating down on us?!
No such thing as a chemtrail. Virtually every flight to Japan and east asia fly right over here. Photos of WWII bombing raids show the sky full of contrails. They were dropping hardware not mist.
Well, somebody noticed during the 9/11 air traffic shutdown.
— web stuff
Travis et al. (2002) produced a calculation suggesting that the lack of contrails during the airline shutdown following the attacks of 11 September 2001 resulted in a substantial rise in the diurnal temperature range across the US.
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Debate as to raising temps (water vapor is a climate changing gas).
Or lowering temps (i.e. blocking sunlight).
You can read about it on the web.
Saw 4 xs at once a month ago. Same time 20 or so military jets flew into sac to escape severe tornado weather.
again with the chemtrails, really people ? you see frozen water vapor around the sun, “ooh, it’s so pretty”, and you think water vapor frozen from a commercial jet is a government plot ?
The blinking screen tells you what to think so you do, but you aren’t thinking. Why didn’t jet liners create clouds when you were a child, old man?
>”Why didn’t jet liners create clouds when you were a child, old man?”
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Eh ? Photo is WWII bombers creating contrails.
Thanks for the conformation!
Myrtletown
Here is a picture from the same day two years ago!
Awe, that’s amazing. My friend’s bday, the year he died and would’ve been 70 … he’d would’ve been 72 this year, passed on March 29 2022.
Fortuna
Very cool to see!!!!