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sundog

or sun dog

[ suhn-dawg, -dog ]

noun

  1. a small or incomplete rainbow.


sundog

/ ˈʌˌɒɡ /

noun

  1. another word for parhelion
  2. a small rainbow or halo near the horizon
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of sundog1

First recorded in 1625–35; origin uncertain
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"The colors usually go from red closest to the sun, out to blue on the outside of the sundog," the NWS explained in a blog post.

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A feast prepared by the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe capped a day in which even the clouds wore rainbows of sundogs.

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After a week of wild conditions - featuring "weather bomb" gales and "thundersnow" - the Sun takes the opportunity to explain some of the more baffling meteorological terms, such as sundogs, haboobs and supercells.

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A rainbow wrapped around the sun – a phenomenon called a sundog.

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On either side of it, great, gasping sundogs struggled.

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