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Originally posted by DarkHelmet
This morning as I was riding the bus to school, I noticed something very weird, or at least it was to me. As I looked SouthEast, I saw a grey sky with a pinkish background in the little bit of horizen I could see. In front of all this however There was a giant pilar of something Blood Red. It was just a cylinder thing against a grey background. It seemed as though it came out of the cloude itself. I know it wasn't the sun rising, because it wasn't supposed to for like 30 minutes, and It was rising in the East, not in the direction I was looking...We had to drive north for a while, then when we turned and face the direction again, it had vanished... Can someone please tell me what the hell I saw??
Originally posted by DarkHelmet
Santa?? Sure didn't wave... he didn't give me my XBOX...
But seriously... This was a coulumn kinda like a tornado... Maybe I was just seeing things?? I don't think so though, and it was also very bright.
Originally posted by cmdrkeenkid
"Could it be a reflection of a really low sun in the atmorpheric particles creating spectacular colors and effects?" lilbam
The sun pillar, visible as a column of light when the sun is under the horizon, is caused by multiple reflexions between flat ice crystals, all falling with the same orientation.
Originally posted by DarkHelmet
I don't think so because the rest of the sky was just a dull grey since it just got done snowing. It was like the only colored thing in the sky... The sun wasn't even rising yet. It wasn't that light out.
Originally posted by DarkHelmet
This morning as I was riding the bus to school, I noticed something very weird, or at least it was to me. As I looked SouthEast, I saw a grey sky with a pinkish background in the little bit of horizen I could see. In front of all this however There was a giant pilar of something Blood Red. It was just a cylinder thing against a grey background. It seemed as though it came out of the cloude itself. I know it wasn't the sun rising, because it wasn't supposed to for like 30 minutes, and It was rising in the East, not in the direction I was looking...We had to drive north for a while, then when we turned and face the direction again, it had vanished... Can someone please tell me what the hell I saw??
Originally posted by DarkHelmet
The only problem is after I got done posting all these and went to lunch... i noticed the sky was completely empty... While riding the bus It was dark and it looked as if there were clouds. So right now, the only clouds even close to me is the ones west of me in the Mountains. Even those are fairly small... I guess the question gets a little more complicated now??