In Which the Sun Briefly Gets Lost
Jun. 7th, 2008 08:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ysabetwordsmithDoes anyone know of a phenomenon which would make the sun appear to unset?
I was watching the sunset tonight. The sky was clear, with only a few wisps of cloud, so the sun was plainly visible as a large orange disk. It disappeared beyond the western horizon. The orange sky around it faded to peach.
And about a minute later, the sky there abruptly brightened to orange. A spark of sun appeared, then the top of the disk. Then it went back over the horizon and the sky faded back to peach.
I stared very hard at the spot for some time, wondering WTF just happened. The sun seems to have stayed down this time.
The horizon there is fairly flat and clear, without a lot of trees or houses in the way. I've watched the sun set many times in that location, and I've never seen anything like this before. I mean ... WTF? I know the cardinal directions around here are prone to some odd shifts, but that is the first time I've seen the sun directly affected. The incident involving a trip from Carbondale to Danville by way of St. Louis was, I believe, confined to the surface/roads mutating and the effect on the sun was just a side effect. I'm hoping that a rational explanation for this is available, because the potential mystical ones are ... disturbing.
I was watching the sunset tonight. The sky was clear, with only a few wisps of cloud, so the sun was plainly visible as a large orange disk. It disappeared beyond the western horizon. The orange sky around it faded to peach.
And about a minute later, the sky there abruptly brightened to orange. A spark of sun appeared, then the top of the disk. Then it went back over the horizon and the sky faded back to peach.
I stared very hard at the spot for some time, wondering WTF just happened. The sun seems to have stayed down this time.
The horizon there is fairly flat and clear, without a lot of trees or houses in the way. I've watched the sun set many times in that location, and I've never seen anything like this before. I mean ... WTF? I know the cardinal directions around here are prone to some odd shifts, but that is the first time I've seen the sun directly affected. The incident involving a trip from Carbondale to Danville by way of St. Louis was, I believe, confined to the surface/roads mutating and the effect on the sun was just a side effect. I'm hoping that a rational explanation for this is available, because the potential mystical ones are ... disturbing.
