Sun dogs forming in lenticular Clouds near Bourg-Madame, on the Spain/France border of Catalonia. Clouds like these more or less

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Sun dogs forming in lenticular Clouds near Bourg-Madame, on the Spain/France border of Catalonia. Clouds like these more or less stationary and lens-shaped, forming in the lower atmosphere, usually perpendicular to wind direction. Where I took this image was quite cold - the other side of the mountains, warm air was blowing in from the Mediterranean Sea - with the combination of both, the vapour was likely formed. The sun dog - or the rainbow colours in the halo, are formed through light refracting through ice crystals in the atmosphere.

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Size: 3589px × 5382px
Location: Bourg Madame, Pyrenees Orientales, France
Photo credit: © deadlyphoto.com / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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Keywords: altocumulus, bourg, catalonia, catalunya, cerdagne, cerdanya, clouds, dog, dogs, france, lenticular, lenticularis, madame, morning, mountains, orientales, parhelion, puigcerda, pyrenees, pyréées-orientales, saillagouse, spain, sun, sundog, sundogs, weird