Sun Pillar
Sun pillar, most cases require ice crystals falling from cloud ice crystals termed virga. View SW from Asheville, North Carolina January 1974. A sun pillar is a halo phenomenon in which a vertical streak of light appears above and below the sun, believed to be caused by the reflection of sunlight by ice crystals with vertical axes.
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