Have you ever experienced unusual weather phenomena?

Question

Do you know what it was or can you describe it? I once saw two suns - one a reflection of the other - I believe they're called sun dogs. It was very weird and I really couldn't believe my eyes and wondered (briefly) if it might be an alien visitation. That was outside Oxford, UK. The other was an ice storm in Kansas City. I woke up and everything was encased in ice. I was a child and it really did seem like magic, especially the sound of trees tinkling. Have you ever witnessed any kind of weather not normally seen?

Answer 1

Yes, I have. I used to do a lot of hillwalking, and there's a strange thing that happens when the weather is right and you get to a certain height - it's wierd - and difficult to describe, but basicallyyou can see what appears to be a huge person with angelic like rays coming from it on the horizon in the sky - but it is actually your own shaddow cast into mist!! There's a name for it, but I cant remember whatit is ?!
I also once saw a circular rainbow in the sky - that was incredibly beautiful!! I would have loved to have seen your 2 suns....I love these kind of things, they are worth more than money could ever buy!

Answer 2

On holiday in southern India about 20 years ago I watched an electrical storm. We sat on ther verandah late one evening watching nature put on the most amazing pyrotechnic display. It certainly surpassed all the 4th July and new year's eve fireworks displays I have ever seen.

We were treated to a couple of hours of lightening that lit up the skies and the clouds. There were many different colours. Some lightening appeared to travel right accross the sky. But it was solid - not like fork lightning. There was no rain and it was totally silent - no thunder at all.

Sometimes the lightning was so continuous you could read by it.
In the Bible, King David says that God has a storehouse of lightning. That night I thought someone had left the door open a little bit.

Answer 3

Seen sun dogs.
Twisters.
Squals.
Hurricanes.
Typhoons.
Tremendous drop in temperature, after the wind blew in from Siberia.
Strangest though was last year, we had experienced a violent thunderstorm, during which I turned off the computer. After it finished logged back on again. About half an hour later a flash with a bang on top, it was as though the sky was on fire, there was a terrific shock wave, people were screaming and running for cover, sadly my computer was knocked out.
In the early fifties the famous London smogs, one descended on a Sunday morning turning day into night very rapidly. I was very small but as the street lights came on I remember a woman kneeling down to pray, obviously believing it to be the day of judgement.

Answer 4

I come from Canada. where we experience some pretty bad snow blizzards.I experienced there:

In Chicoutimi, Quebec. Lightning struck our house and burn it to the ground when I was 5. A rare 7.0 Earthquake rocked us bad when I was 17, and a Major flood from a dam break flooded my Gramps lost everything in 2000.

Early 90's... I move to Montreal where I experienced an ice storm in January1998 and record snow blizzards. Which made me move away from there to Mexico.

In Puerto Vallarta 2003, hurricane Kenna ripped our yard and roof apart.

I got married in April 2004 under an ultra red harvest full moon in Cancun.

And in 2005 after 15 months of wonderful Caribbean living in Cancun, we went through EMILY in July and later in October WILMA which was the worst experience in my life. We fled the Yucatan with our dogs and whatever we could fit in our cars and drove back to my parents in Puerto Vallarta. Where we now live again.

I have had enough of weird weather conditions!!!!

Oh! And hurricane John just passed us by 8 hours ago. We got absolutly NADA no rain, no wind nothing! Now that's weird!!!

Anybody want to compare stories. And NO I'm not a storm chaser!!!!

Answer 5

Yes, when I was in Hunstanton in 1983, there was a sharp thunderstorm where the sky went pitch black, and turned everything quite literally into night. It blotted out the sun and poured down.

My Mum was also in Hunstanton on the UK's hottest ever day (10th August 2003). There, the hot air from the land collided with cooler air off whipping in off the sea, to produce a freak gust of wind which uprooted all the parasols along the seafront.

Answer 6

Hi mate. When I was very young I saw Ball Lightning, which went straight over the top of me. That was cool!
We had a twister close to where I live in Peterborough a couple of weeks ago. Went through a village called Baston in the fens and caused quite a lot of damage. Unusual over here!

By the way, Joe mentioned the Dudley earthquake. I had put together a flat packed bed the afternoon before and when we felt the earthquake I thought that my bed was collapsing!

Answer 7

sun dogs are not a weather phonomenon they are just refractionsof sunlight through ice crystals in the sky. they are pretty though and alot easier to look at when ou have sunglasses on. i saw one the other day =p. there are also halos that can encircle the sun. basically a whole rainbow going around the sun . there are alos arcs.
sun halo: http://www.2kiwis.co.uk/images/IMG_6452-01-halo.jpg
sun dogs: http://www.arctic-photo.com/images/skies/images/the_sun_dogs_of_april.jpg
arc
another interesting phenomenon are sun pillars which looks liek the sun is sitting on top of an illuminated pillar
http://pscwx.plymouth.edu/ams/pictures/MtWashIntern04/1-12-04/pages/Sun%20Pillar%201-12-04g.html

cloud iridecesne looks like the clouds are iridecent.
http://www.meteoros.de/iris/iri11.htm

also if a plane flies over a cloud there can be something called a glory where a series of illuminated rings surround the shadow of the aircraft. there are also places around the world where you can climb atop of a mountain and see you shadow on clouds whith rings around you. one of them is on top of the volcanoe haleakola(sp) in maui, hawaii.
http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/gmt1/glory.jpg
http://www.weatheronline.co.uk/daten/gifs/glory100_big.jpg

hoe this helps! as for me ive only seen the sun dogs =)

Answer 8

Last summer, I stood at my apartment doors and experienced the weirdest breeze ever. It was really hot air coming direct from the Sahara ( I live in Spain and we get much of our weather, and dust from there) It was just like standing in front of an open oven door, really hot and made my eyes feel really dry within seconds, but really weird!

Answer 9

No but I was in the earth quake that happened in Dudley U.K a few years ago (not a spot usually affected by earth quakes for those who don't know). It was funny because the second it kicked in I had just flushed the toilet, I though dam thats some bad plumming!!!

Answer 10

I once saw a lake, frozen over, covered in snow. A clump of snow exactly every 5 inches crystalized into a clump-of-grass like formation. They were all 5 inches apart. It was strange.