Severe Thunderstorms in the Southeast U.S.; Critical Fire Weather in the Central and Southern Plains

Scattered severe thunderstorms remain possible this afternoon and evening across parts of southern Georgia into north and west-central Florida. Both damaging winds and a few tornadoes may occur. Gusty to high winds and low relative humidity will bring critical fire weather to the central and southern Plains today into Tuesday. Read More >

During the morning of March 12, 2008, an optical phenomena was visible in the eastern sky from Spokane, a parhelion, more commonly known as a sundog. These typically (but not always) for near sunrise and sunset when the sun is low in the sky and the atmosphere is filled with ice crystals, typically from cirrus clouds. Unlike rainbows, which appear in the sky opposite the sun, sundogs appear to the left and right of the sun. The sun's rays are reflected or refracted as they pass through the ice crystals, forming the sundogs.

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Severe Thunderstorms in the Southeast U.S.; Critical Fire Weather in the Central and Southern Plains

Sundogs on March 12, 2008