The vertical shaft of light in the sky some in Wisconsin saw Thursday evening isn't just a cool sunset, it's a 'sun pillar'
The vertical shaft of light in the sky some in Wisconsin saw Thursday evening isn't just a cool sunset, it's a 'sun pillar' Joe Taschler, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel © Joe Taschler/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel This image, captured in Germantown on Thursday evening just northwest of where Milwaukee, Washington and Waukesha counties meet, shows a sun pillar. The phenomenon occurs when sunlight reflects off ice crystals in the Earth's atmosphere, according to the National Weather Service. Those vertical beams of light that folks may have seen in Thursday's sunset in southern Wisc...
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