We've Got The County Covered
We've Got The County Covered
"Sun Dogs" are most common in the winter in western states. Caused by light interacting with ice crystals in the air, the phantom or mock suns appear on the horizon at the same level as the real sun.
The 'snowy season' seems to have set in and that means winter is official by the calendar and real outside. I grew up in the Midwest and experienced winter, but it wasn't until my own family lived in the western part of the country that I began to really understand winter-bitter cold, lots of snow, and howling winds. We first lived in Wyoming, bounced back east and south for a few years, then to North Dakota, western Washington and parts of both western and eastern Montana. I'd say we've had a pretty fair sampling of western winters.
50 words for snow?
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