Syracuse.com - Shoeshoer snaps photo of 'sundog' while walking on frozen Otisco Lake

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A sundog is reflection of sunlight off the ice crystals in the clouds. They make it look like there's more than one sun in the sky or that the sun has a halo around it.

Lynda DeLallo and her son were out on Otisco Lake with snowshoes today and saw this sundog.

"It was like a full rainbow around the sun. Very pretty,,' she said.

A sundog is reflection of sunlight off the ice crystals in the clouds. They make it look like there's more than one sun in the sky or that the sun has a halo around it.

DeLallo sent another photo of a huge partial ring in the sky north of the sun.

xxx DeLallo photo 

"This was white with a few blips of more white but it wasn't around the sun," she said. " Is this considered a sundog too? They were both about the same time."

I would say so. What do others think? Also, did anyone else happen to see this phenomenon today? Take a picture? Send your photos to me at [email protected] and I'll share them with readers.

She said talked to an ice fisherman who told her the ice on the lake was 15 to 18 inches thick. "We confirmed this with our poles," she said.

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