{"id":8729,"date":"2009-10-18T13:28:09","date_gmt":"2009-10-18T19:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/?p=8729"},"modified":"2010-07-16T11:51:36","modified_gmt":"2010-07-16T17:51:36","slug":"and-over-moscow-city-a-ring-of-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2009\/10\/and-over-moscow-city-a-ring-of-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Strange Sky: And Over Moscow City, a Ring of Light"},"content":{"rendered":"
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…a spokesman from Moscow’s weather forecasting service said: “Several fronts have been passing through Moscow recently, there was an intrusion of the Arctic air too, the sun was shining from the west \u00e2\u20ac\u201c this is how the effect was produced. <\/p>\n

“This is purely an optical effect, although it does look impressive<\/a>,” he added.<\/p>\n

“If you look closer, you can see sun rays coming through that cloud. Most likely, the sun was setting when the video was being made. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Last Wednesday an Independence Day<\/a><\/em>-like cloud appeared over Moscow City and freaked the crap out of a lot of people. We don’t blame them. Anything making Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich science prophets<\/a> scares the poo out of us, too.
\nOur strange sky:<\/strong><\/p>\n