Anyone else notice the sky tonight?

I think it was from the light snow falling, but did you see the "lines" that were appearing above the lights? It was really cool. I took a few pics of it, you can kinda see what it's like.

 

i saw it too i thought it was cool also

 

isn't that similar to northern lights???

 

Not quite, I think these are called snow pillars or light pillars.

http://www.islandnet.com/~see/weather/eyes/pillars.htm

 

thats what i thought it was

 

thats cool

 

I thought we were all going to die at Firestone!

 

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That would explain why I couldn't see them. One of my friends called to tell me the northern lights were out looking like "spotlights" so I turned off all the lights here and walked out to the orchard to see if I could see them. I saw nothing. There aren't any bright lights for miles around my corner of Andover but my friend lives in Coon Rapids where there is plenty of man-made light to refract. That and all the trees here make it impossible to see anything closer to the horizon. At least it wasn't as cold out as I thought it was going to be.

 

yeah, saw those and started driving out of the cities to see if they were northern lights. looked weird and straight...then noticed that they were moving and tracking with street lights!

thanks for the pics dude, my camera couldnt pick them out

 

those awesome lights are all around firestone last nite.

 

They showed it on channel 4 WCCO news. And Joel took the pics. That must be you yO!!!

 

well, i was disscussing with matt, and we agreed that it was reflection from the snow off light post. we did notice that all the lights had the same lighting going into the sky. so we concluded that it was the snow reflecting off the light post.

 

they had it on all of the news stations

 

Yeah, I emailed a couple pics to wcco, it was my wife's idea. I didn't think they'd actually use them on the news, that was cool. Not all of them in the news story were mine though.

 

well at least they thought that some of ur pics were cool

 

I seen it too... i went outside and just stared at it for like 13 mins then got cold. It was glowing real nice over downtown. is that special or happens ever winter? it was really cool looking