GREENTOWN, Ohio (WJW) — Weather conditions were exactly correct Tuesday to create some beautiful displays of light in the bright sky.
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The picture below were captured when FOX 8 viewer Victoria Conner was walking her dogs out on her Greentown farm this morning. The colored spots of light around the sun are called a sundog.
FOX 8 Meteorologist Dontaé Jones explained sundogs are created by the refraction of light through ice crystals.
“They are caused by ice crystals that are faced horizontally in the atmosphere. So when the sun’s rays hit the ice crystals, it bends (refracts) the sunlight,” Jones said. “The ice crystals are shaped like a hexagon so that helps to bend and twist all the light to produce this beauty.”
When a sundog-type phenomenon occurs at night, it’s called a moon dog, according to the National Weather Service…