If the colors in a sundog were more prominent you'd see them spreading away from the sun in this order but orientated vertically rather than horizontally as with a rainbow. Sundogs don't only vary ...

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A partial rainbow near the sun. The optical illusion is most commonly referred to as a sundog, or a mock sun. Sundogs appear as patches of light on one, or both sides of the sun. Sometimes ...

A partial rainbow near the sun. The optical illusion is most commonly referred to as a sundog, or a mock sun. The pool's open. Trump's laid off the team that helps protect swimmers. Denmark raises ...

According to the Almanac, sundogs appear when sunlight passes through a thin veil of ice crystal clouds, which acts as a prism and refracts the light. Not to be confused with a rainbow ...

An atmospheric phenomenon called sundogs, these are similar to a rainbow. Both sundogs and rainbows are formed by moisture filtering sunlight. Sundogs occur when light refracts through ice ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich — Viewers across West Michigan were in awe of the patches of rainbow popping up across the area on Sunday. Sundogs are a result of the refraction of light when the sun's rays ...

FOX 8 Meteorologist Dontaé Jones explains sundogs are created by the refraction ... Todd Meany spotted a rainbow on one of the FOX 8 weather cams. Check it out in the video player above!

A rare cloud known as a sun dog was spotted over Jacksonville Thursday evening. A sun dog is a rainbow-like iridescent cloud. This happens when ice crystals embedded in cirrus clouds high up in ...

A rainbow cloud is a similar rainbow, halo, sundog, circumhorizontal arc, because it forms due to the diffraction or refraction of light. In 2018, a similar "fire rainbow" was spotted in Vermont.

Patsy Yates Answer: You can't have an actual rainbow without rain, and it doesn't seem like you saw a "sun dog." (Those occur when the sun is low in the sky, early or late in the day.) We're left ...