If you get up with the roosters, you may have recently seen a rare sight in the sky for the Central Virginia area: a sun pillar.

Sun pillars are basically huge beams of light that ... they reflect the sun's rays off of them. You can see these most often right around sunset or sunrise like yesterday morning and when ...

IT LOOKS LIKE GLOWING SUN AS RAY OF SUNSHINE INTO THE SKY ... AND THAT’S WHAT WE ARE SEEING THAT SOME PILLARS. SO BASICALLY IT’S JUST A DIRECTIONAL SHIFT OF LIGHT FROM THOSE ICE CRYSTALS.

These tiny ice crystals act like small mirrors, reflecting the sun's rays vertically and thus giving an illusion of a bright pillar of light. Similar to other atmospheric optical phenomena like ...

Light pillars are a unique weather phenomenon that occurs on cold, calm nights in the dead of winter. They are very similar to sundogs, which features two rainbows surrounding the sun, caused from ...

We look at the four lightweight hoodies from VOORMI, Patagonia, Anetik and Outdoor Research that will protect you from harmful sun rays ... Our climb, the Third Pillar of Dana, juts out over ...