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Sun Dogs, Kirkby
Lonsdale
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Mr URBAN,
ON May 24, about half an hour after six o'clock in
the morning, the air being replete with watery particles of
a pale duskish colour, and the atmosphere seeming to be
equally spread with a very fine lamina, smooth and evenly
suspended, there appeared a coloured halo above the sun (see
the above representation) very fair and distinct, for a
considerable time. The inner half of the semicircle was of a
reddish, and the outer half of a light yellow colour, the
bright spots on either side the sun terminated in far
distant points, like the shadow of the earth in an eclipse
of the moon; the corona, or inverted circle, was not so
visible as one I observed a few years since: the bright
spots disappeared first, then the vivid colour of the iris
faded by degrees, extending itself to a stupendous arch
before it totally disappeared.
We have had very hot droughty weather, and still continues
ever since the appearance of the halo. - The barometer
unusually low, rising and falling almost every day a little,
but low in the main from what might be expected this hot
season.
Yours, &c. S. PARROT.
Near Kirkby Lonsdale, Westmorland, June 5.
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