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sundog
or sun dog
[ suhn-dawg, -dog ]
sundog
/ ˈʌˌɒɡ /
noun
- another word for parhelion
- a small rainbow or halo near the horizon
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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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