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Ice disks, midnight sun and other weird weather phenomena

Whatever the weather
Sun halo, Mount Agung, Bali, Indonesia
Dust devils, Great Rift Valley, Kenya
Noctilucent clouds, Finland
Belt of Venus, Dreisesselberg, Bavaria, Germany
White rainbow, Fundatura Ponorului, Romania
Red moon, various locations
Volcanic lightning, Calbuco volcano, Puerto Varas, Chile
Fire whirls, Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge, Virginia, USA
Pyrocumulus clouds, Los Angeles, California, USA
Katabatic wind, Cantabrian Mountains, Spain
Green flash, Hawaii, USA
Catatumbo lightning, Catatumbo River, Venezuela
Ice caves, Apostle Islands National Shoreline, Wisconsin, USA
Midnight sun, Svalbard, Norway
Penitentes, San Francisco Mountain Pass, Chile
Moonbow, Cumberland Falls, Kentucky, USA
Morning Glory clouds, Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia
Virga, Mono Lake, California, USA
Supercell, Great Plains, South Dakota, USA
Cappuccino coast, Portstewart, Northern Ireland
Snow donuts, North Cascades National Park, Washington, USA
Frost flowers, Lake Kussharo, Hokkaido, Japan
Fall streak hole, Piberbach, Austria
Giant hailstones, Vivian, South Dakota, USA
Aurora borealis, Lapland, Finland
Aurora australis, Lake Wakatipu, Kinloch, New Zealand
Frostwork, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
Sundogs, Prairie Lake, Minnesota, USA
Mammatus clouds, Valentine, Nebraska
Sun pillars, Mount Olympus, Washington, USA
Lenticular clouds, Boa Vista, Brazil
Waterspouts, Issyk-Kul Lake, Kyrgyzstan
Sea smoke, Baltic Sea, Latvia
Ball lightning, Whitby, Ontario, Canada
Fire rainbow, West Virginia, USA
Ice disk, Westbrook, Maine, USA
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Whatever the weather

Weather has long been a favorite topic of conversation, from unseasonably hot, sunny days to skin-soaking drizzle that seems to last for weeks. But some weather really is worth talking about. These are the moonbows that shimmer in the night sky, the haloes, spots and dots deflected from the sun's rays, and the clouds that look like spaceships. Here's a selection of some of the most amazing weather phenomena, from the Northern Lights to frost flowers.
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06 February 2022

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