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Sun Mirage & Green
Flash imaged by John Cesarek near San Francisco last November
3rd. ©John Cesarek,
shown with permission.
Temperature inversions give us miraged
sunsets and green flashes.
The inversion is visible as the darker zone from the horizon up to the
flash. A combination of air cooled by the cold offshore ocean current and
warm Santa ana winds produced it.
A mock-mirage made
the three suns: Sun #1 is the lower descending pancake shape.
Sun #2, an inverted rising image, is the fragmented yellow line at the
top of the dark layer. Finally, descending sun #3, just above the layer,
has its colors vertically stretched to show the intense flash of green.
Even the island is miraged into a towering mountain.
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