At the end of another fine day on the beach, our familiar golden globe of flowing gas rotates below the horizon, with a peculiar flattening apparition on its limbs giving it a mounded shape. The cause? An inversion layer, similar to those that caused the “Balloon Sun” three days later or a flat-sun feature 24 hours earlier at the same spot, also bent enough sunlight aside to yield this effect.
Sanibel FL (27 Dec 8) Looking WSW
26.4498, -82.1426Mound Sun
At the end of another fine day on the beach, our familiar golden globe of flowing gas rotates below the horizon, with a peculiar flattening apparition on its limbs giving it a mounded shape. The cause? An inversion layer, similar to those that caused the “Balloon Sun” three days later or a flat-sun feature 24 hours earlier at the same spot, also bent enough sunlight aside to yield this effect.
Sanibel FL (27 Dec 8) Looking WSW
26.4498, -82.1426