Nature’s Spectacles: 35 Rare Weather Phenomena to Marvel At

Sundog is an atmospheric phenomenon that gives the viewer an impression that there are multiple suns in the sky.

On February 27, 1717, a series of massive snowstorms began in New England. A week later, 95% of the deer population had died and many single-story homes were completely buried.

In June 2008, a tornado hit Kansas State University's campus destroying only one building, their Wind Erosion Lab.

During the Great Flood of 1993, a 23-year-old man named James Scott removed sandbags from an Illinois levee in order to strand his wife on the other side of the river so that he could keep partying. He received life imprisonment for “intentionally causing a catastrophe.”

The "Solar storm of 1859" was so powerful that telegraphs continued to operate after being disconnected, auroras were seen in the tropics, and miners in the Rockies thought the sun had risen early.