Frigid Weather & Sundogs

With temperatures dipping to -3 to -4 degrees F with -23 degree wind chills, conditions were prime
for the formation of a sundog on the evening of Wednesday, January 7, 2015. The top image was taken from the front grounds at Noelridge Christian Church in Cedar Rapids, Iowa at 3:47 PM. The middle image looks southwest at 4:07 PM from C Avenue, just south of County Home Road north of Marion. Bottom image is a view of the sundog at 4:16 PM from the entrance of Echo Hill Presbyterian Church on C Avenue north of Marion. The dark streak through the sun on the second and third images is a windblown steam plume from the Duane Arnold Energy Center near Palo, Iowa.