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Hi BYB, glad to see you. Oh, thanks you guys. I've seen some rather impressive glories in my day and all I could think to call them is "Oh, my!"
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Welcome aBoard, dmkoelle, and...thank you SO much: now you're going to have me scratching my head in wonderment all night... Try as I might, I can't come up with it. Glory hasn't been an AWAD word, unfortunately.
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when rays of sunlight break through the clouds (colours mine ... oh ha ha!)
What a colourful start, dmkoelle! WELCOME! There's a few interesing words coming up. Glory seems a bit bland to me, although it is scientific (if Dr Bill's site is correct).
Thanks for posting your question here, it should be fun figuring out more words for this phenomenon.
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I've seen some rather impressive glories in my day...
What a coincidence. I've seen some rather impressive days in all my glory.
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glory, from dr. bill's link, didn't sound like the same phenomenon at all....
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Thanks to everyone who has sent me a nice warm welcome! :)
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Hi, dmkoelle. Many landscape paintings from the 19th century used the device of sunlight bursting through clouds to provide the basis for unusual sun-based effects on the rest of the scene. This style is called herculean. I was looking at several of JMW Turner's paintings at the Tate Britain last weekend which used just this herculean approach. Dunno if it's the word you're after, however.
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A friend of mine, who is a meteorologist, always referred to this phenomenon as sun dogs.
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sun dogs.Sun dogs are not just plain light shining through clouds. They occur when there are suspended ice particles in the air and they are two bright spots on either side of the sun. This phenomenon is very familiar to people from Winnipeg but probably not people from, say, Perth! (It may be a YART, but it was easy for me to explain anyway.) Here's an URL: http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/~mgb/polepiccies/99092sU.jpg
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