Earth Changes
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.
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.
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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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.
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:
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.
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.
And modern temperatures are recorded on electronic equipment, sometimes in areas affected by urban heat islands (concrete and cars).
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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