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Southern California Mock-Mirage Sunset. Kevin
Baird (images)
saw this impossibly distorted sun on October 13, '05 from
near Palomar Airport  . "I
watched for a green flash, but the sky
became so murky toward the horizon that the sun almost disappeared.
More of a dark red fade than a green flash." Multiple inversion
layers produced the complex mirage. The cold California Ocean
Current had cooled the air next to the ocean surface. Above that
there were layers of warm dry air driven from inland by high
pressure over Utah and Nevada. Image ©Kevin
Baird, shown with permission.
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