Crown flash
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crown-flash-179-7437391
title:
Crown flash
text:
Crown flash is a rarely observed meteorological phenomenon caused by the effect of atmospheric electrical fluctuations on the alignment of ice crystals. It has been described as "the brightening of a thunderhead crown followed by the appearance of aurora-like streamers emanating into the clear atmosphere". The current hypothesis for why the phenomenon occurs is that sunlight is reflecting off, or refracting through, tiny ice crystals above the crown of a cumulonimbus cloud. These ice crystals ar
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Weather phenomenon producing light
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_flash
date created:
2015-09-03T11:17:47Z
date modified:
2024-09-04T23:26:37Z
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