Atmospheric Phenomena

This picture actually shows just a few air bubbles frozen in a sheet of ice. But when watching it from a certain angle against the antisolar...

In the morning of March 1st, 2010, I made my second observation of „glorydescent clouds“. These are fragments of a glory which change very m...

Hair ice (in German Haareis) is formed at dead wood by conditions of high humidity and temperatures near freezing point. Water in the pores ...

Winter halos in nearby ice crystals are quite a rare sighting in most parts of Germany. However, there are few special places where the chan...

After some very cold days in Heréd (Northern Hungary) Karoly Viczian went out to the garden to break the ice in a rainwater collecting barr...

Like everywhere around the world, New Years Day was also welcomed with fireworks around Mt. Wendelstein. It is always a special highlight to...

Diamond dust halos are normally observed in northern regions of Europe, or in the mountains where temperatures in winter often drop sufficie...

After the twilights had been getting normal through the past three weeks, where hardly any volcanic aerosoles from Sarychev volcano had been...

Mark Worme observed this rainbow today at around 3.15 pm Atlantic Standard Time in central Barbados facing east. At first he only noticed th...

Many people find flights boring - but not all! If you are lucky to be seated by a window you can always find something interesting in the ai...