{"id":9593,"date":"2019-01-31T19:50:30","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T02:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=9593"},"modified":"2019-02-05T21:06:06","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T04:06:06","slug":"sun-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2019\/01\/31\/sun-dogs\/","title":{"rendered":"Sun Dogs"},"content":{"rendered":"

from TIME Magazine<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Polar Vortex Is Causing Striking Solar Phenomena Called ‘Sundogs.’ Here’s What to Know<\/h1>\n

By GINA MARTINEZ<\/a><\/p>\n

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The polar vortex that has brought deadly cold<\/a> and record-breaking low temperatures to the Midwest has also resulted in beautiful solar phenomena \u2013 sundogs.<\/p>\n

According to the National Weather Service,<\/a> sundogs form when sunlight refracts off ice crystals in the atmosphere and result in colored spots of light approximately 22 degrees either left, right, or both, from the sun.<\/p>\n

The origin of the name \u201csundog\u201d is not entirely clear, but according to Chicago meteorologist Tom Skilling<\/a>, the name originates from the Greek myth that Zeus walked his dogs across the sky and that the bright \u201cfalse suns\u201d in the sky on either side of the sun were Zeus\u2019 dogs.<\/p>\n

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from TIME Magazine The Polar Vortex Is Causing Striking Solar Phenomena Called ‘Sundogs.’ Here’s What to Know By GINA MARTINEZ The polar vortex that has brought deadly cold and record-breaking low temperatures to the Midwest has also resulted in beautiful solar phenomena \u2013 sundogs. According to the National Weather Service, sundogs form when sunlight refracts […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}