{"id":43,"date":"2010-05-24T01:50:18","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T01:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cires.colorado.edu\/blogs\/shupe\/?p=43"},"modified":"2014-06-05T21:27:43","modified_gmt":"2014-06-05T21:27:43","slug":"beautiful-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/shupe\/2010\/05\/24\/beautiful-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Beautiful Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/shupe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2010\/05\/haloshupe.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-44\" title=\"haloshupe\" src=\"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/shupe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2010\/05\/haloshupe-300x209.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/shupe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2010\/05\/haloshupe-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/shupe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2010\/05\/haloshupe.jpg 659w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The last couple of days have been pretty amazing at Summit.\u00a0 Overcast stratus has given away to clear and sunny.\u00a0 The temperature got up to +20F yesterday.\u00a0 Today there were no clouds in the sky, but lots of little ice crystals flowed with the wind.\u00a0 &#8220;Diamond dust,&#8221; as it is called, seems to be fairly common around here.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve seen it on a number of days.\u00a0 Today&#8217;s lead to a beautiful optical display with very distinct sun dogs on both sides of the sun and a parahelic circle that passed through the sun and the sun dogs and circled the full sky (below).\u00a0 Halos (like the one to the left that is surrounding me (photo credit: Chris Cox)) are also quite common.<a href=\"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/shupe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2010\/05\/sundogs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-46\" title=\"sundogs\" src=\"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/shupe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2010\/05\/sundogs-300x114.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"114\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/shupe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2010\/05\/sundogs-300x114.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/shupe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2010\/05\/sundogs.jpg 816w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> These optical phenomena are due to the reflection and refraction of sunlight from ice crystals of different shapes and orientations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last couple of days have been pretty amazing at Summit.\u00a0 Overcast stratus has given away to clear and sunny.\u00a0 The temperature got up to +20F yesterday.\u00a0 Today there were no clouds in the sky, but lots of little ice crystals flowed with the wind.\u00a0 &#8220;Diamond dust,&#8221; as it is called, seems to be fairly&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/shupe\/2010\/05\/24\/beautiful-days\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-04 15:27:25","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/shupe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/shupe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/shupe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/shupe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/shupe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/shupe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/shupe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions\/137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/shupe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/shupe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/shupe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}