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Stunning moon halo strikes gazers in Budapest, Hungary

Moon halo over Budapest, Hungary
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The halo phenomenon is seen around the Moon above Budapest.
It's been quite a week for stargazers across the globe after a rare lunar eclipse had a spectacular impact on the moon. A super blood wolf moon moved into the UK on Sunday night, during which sunlight passing through Earth's atmosphere lit the celestial body in a dramatic fashion, turning it red. Now the moon has experienced another atmospheric phenomenon, with pictures showing its light creating a halo above Earth.

Stunning pictures taken of the sky above Budapest, Hungary, show the halo moon lighting up the sky with a never-ending rainbow. What is a halo moon? Scientists call the phenomenon a 22° halos because the ring has a radius of approximately 22 degrees around the sun or moon. The halos are caused by clouds high up in the sky - 20,000 feet or more above our heads - that contain millions of tiny crystals. As the light hits the ice crystals and reflects, the halo is created. It is also caused by refraction - the splitting of light as the sun or moon shines through the thin clouds - or a combination of both effects.

Attention

Signs and Portents: Mutant goat born with two heads and four eyes caught on camera in China

A goat born with two heads and four eyes has
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A goat born with two heads and four eyes has been caught on camera
The bizarre footage shows the kid with the abnormal head lying on hay in its pen.

It struggles to sit up, leading to the farmer lifting its head.

Another clip appears to show its mum licking it to try and rouse it to its feet.

The owners at the goat farm - in the village of Yezhai in Fuyang City in East China's Anhui Province - said its pregnant mum struggled to give birth for seven hours due to the size of the creature's heads.


Attention

Signs and Portents: Two-headed blue-tongue lizard handed to reptile park in Australia

Lucky the two-headed blue tongue lizard.
© Australian Reptile Park
Lucky the two-headed blue tongue lizard.
An extremely rare two-headed blue-tongue lizard has been handed to a NSW Central Coast reptile park by a member of the public.

The lizard, which has since been named Lucky, had handlers at The Australian Reptile Park surprised and excited, with some experts predicting its life expectancy in the wild was not great.

Animals with this deformity often don't survive due to their eating difficulties and inability to defend themselves from predators, the park said.

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Ice Age Farmer Report: NEW STUDY: "Rethink" global warming - Shrinkflation rampant

frost crop
50% Italy's seasonal crop lost to frosts. Shrinkflation is rampant in UK, Australia. A new study indicates "We must rethink global warming" after demonstrating that aerosols cause significant global cooling." Christian breaks it down.


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Snowflake Cold

Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Power prices spike up 4X - Coldest in a century across Canada

Canada snow
Power prices up 4X as Texas experiences extreme cold and record power demand, at the same time Quebec government asking people to turn down the heat as power demand exceeds supply as -50F temperatures make it the coldest January in over 100 years. Ottawa and Quebec break 100 year cold and temperature records.


Comment: Wild Canadian winter: 11 feet of snow, days of -65C windchill


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Powerful tornado hits Turkey's Antalya leaving two dead

Turkey tornado
A tornado that struck Turkey's tourism capital Antalya on Thursday left two people dead, including a 13-year-old child, one person missing and at least 11 more people injured.

The tornado caused damage to many vehicles, agricultural estates and greenhouses in Kumluca and Finike districts.

The injured have been transferred to Kumluca State Hospital and their treatment continues.

"Eleven were injured, including one critically. A university student went missing in Kuzderesi in the Kemer district," Antalya Govenor Münir Karaloğlu told Anadolu Agency.


Snowflake Cold

Arctic air leads to sun dogs in western Michigan

Sun dog over W MI
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West Michigan woke up to some bitterly cold temperatures Monday morning - the lows were the coldest we've experienced in a full year!

But it also set us up for some amazing displays outside.

Arctic air can physically hold very little moisture, making it exceptional for optical phenomena like sun dogs.

When the sun climbed over the horizon Monday morning, the light erupted in a perfect 22 degree halo, with matching sun dogs on either side of the sun, a sun pillar shooting up from the center, and a hint of a tangent arc on the top of the halo. Kelly Clouse took this shot of the moment over Versluis Lake in Plainfield Township:
Sun dog over W Michigan
© Kelly Clause

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Sun dog lights up skies in Caledon, Ontario during extreme cold

Sun dogs over Caledon, Ontario
© Robyn Wilkinson
Between a total lunar eclipse and cold weather sun dogs, the sky had some extra special imagery to gaze at over the weekend and Monday morning, Jan. 21.

If you turned your eyes to the moon Sunday night, Jan. 20 and into the early morning hours Monday you may have caught a glimpse of the total lunar eclipse or blood moon. During Monday's cold morning commute, a weather phenomenon known as a sun dog or snow rainbow was visible.

Sun dogs are known as parhelion, halos, or "mock suns." They are optical effects caused by the refraction of sunlight by ice crystals in the atmosphere, which results in what can appear to be two rainbows on either side of the sun.

Snowflake

Heavy snow hits the Pyrenees - up to 70cm ( 27 inches) of snow in 24 hours

Formigueres

Formigueres
The Pyrenees are seeing some of their biggest snowfalls for three months.

The French resort of Cauterets reports 50-70cm of fresh snow has fallen in the past 24 hours and other ski areas in the region have reported 30-40cm accumulations so far this morning.

Currently, there are blizzard conditions in many areas and some ski centres are closing their slopes for the day.

"The Cirque du Lys ski area is closed for the day due to strong winds and high avalanche risk following the accumulation of 50 to 70 cm of snow since that night," a Cauterets statement reads.

The new snow follows heavy snow on Sunday/Monday meaning resorts have had up to 65cm (26 inches) of snow in the past 72 hours.


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Australian heatwave - Forgotten history

Don't believe your lying eyes - Australian newspaper archives are full of temperatures recorded higher than 121 in the shade which is 50C. All of these temperatures in the map below are found in historic newspaper archives. Measurements done after 1910 are even done with official Stevenson screens, yet the BOM "throws them away". It's true that ones done in the 1800s are often recorded on non-standard equipment, or are just literally "in the shade" under cover. So some of these, perhaps many, are one or two degrees too high. But even if we take two degrees off, how scary is global warming when Australia knew many days of 48C and 49C and some at 50C 120 years ago? The BOM - supposedly so concerned about the State of Our Climate - show little interest in talking about our history or in analyzing it, or even mentioning it.

And modern temperatures are recorded on electronic equipment, sometimes in areas affected by urban heat islands (concrete and cars).
Forgotten History
© JoNova
50C temperatures have occurred all over Australia before

Australians have been recording temperatures of over 50C since 1828, right across the country. In 1896 the heat was so bad for weeks that people fled on emergency trains to escape the inland heat. Millions of birds fell from the sky in 1932 due to the savage hot spell.

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