ORIGINAL CAPTION: It was snowing lightly in Harney County, Oregon, yesterday when a brilliant column of light came lancing out of the clouds. "The light came through a hole in the clouds and went all the way down to the desert floor," says Raven, who witnessed the event.
The name of this phenomenon is "lower sun pillar." It is caused by sunlight mixed with ice: Plate-shaped ice crystals flutter down from the clouds like leaves falling from trees. Air resistance causes the crystals' broad faces to line up in the horizontal direction, creating many little mirrors to intercept and reflect the rays of the sun overhead.
Sun pillars are usually of the upper variety. Lower pillars appear on rare occasions when the sun is blocked by icy clouds and the observer is on a high perch. Raven took her picture from a hillside at 4200 feet.
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