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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 2 of 3 1 2 3 Re: Sunlight through the clouds #67928 04/30/02 12:03 AM Joined: Jun 2001 Posts: 2,636 Caribbean consuelo Carpal Tunnel consuelo Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2001 Posts: 2,636 Caribbean 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!" Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Sunlight through the clouds #67929 04/30/02 12:04 AM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Jackie Carpal Tunnel Jackie Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky 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. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Sunlight through the clouds #67930 04/30/02 01:42 AM Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 477 Sydney, Australia H hev addict hev addict H Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 477 Sydney, Australia 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. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Sunlight through the clouds #67931 04/30/02 01:52 AM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 618 Australia D doc_comfort addict doc_comfort addict D Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 618 Australia I've seen some rather impressive glories in my day... What a coincidence. I've seen some rather impressive days in all my glory. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Sunlight through the clouds #67932 04/30/02 01:56 AM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass glory, from dr. bill's link, didn't sound like the same phenomenon at all.... () Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Sunlight through the clouds #67933 04/30/02 02:19 AM Joined: Jun 2001 Posts: 2,636 Caribbean consuelo Carpal Tunnel consuelo Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2001 Posts: 2,636 Caribbean You are right tswum.[Geez, isn't he most of the time?] The "sunburst picture isn't quite right either. How about this one? http://www.shuttercity.com/ShowPhoto.cfm?PhotoID=35358 Or this one where it appears that the photographer was standing in the sunshaft http://www.shuttercity.com/ShowPhoto.cfm?PhotoID=34099 This one is quite nice, too. http://www.shuttercity.com/ShowPhoto.cfm?PhotoID=36489 Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Sunlight through the clouds #67934 04/30/02 04:03 PM Joined: Apr 2002 Posts: 5 D dmkoelle OP stranger OP dmkoelle stranger D Joined: Apr 2002 Posts: 5 Thanks to everyone who has sent me a nice warm welcome! :) Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Sunlight through the clouds #67935 04/30/02 07:03 PM Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 3,146 Northamptonshire, England Capital Kiwi Carpal Tunnel Capital Kiwi Carpal Tunnel Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 3,146 Northamptonshire, England 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. The idiot also known as Capfka ... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Sunlight through the clouds #67936 05/01/02 12:13 AM Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 688 A Angel addict Angel addict A Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 688 A friend of mine, who is a meteorologist, always referred to this phenomenon as sun dogs. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Sunlight through the clouds #67937 05/01/02 11:03 AM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,156 B Bean old hand Bean old hand B Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,156 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 Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Page 2 of 3 1 2 3 Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. 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