Very strange weather, never seen it before

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It is cold -7deg, bright sunshine, and tiny, tiny bits (I assume it is snow) but looks like glitter whizzing about in the sunlight,

oooo, perhaps diamond dust here

very beautiful and not terribly common here. lucky you

I agree, could be diamond dust. I'm jealous, it must have been beautiful!
Saw a fab sundog on Tuesday tho - this is definitely the weather for optical phenomena!

sundog ?

thats very cool too weasel

We had this just after Christmas, it was so beautiful. Like sparkles in the air. It wasn't windy so it was just hanging there

It was about minus 16 at the time btw. I did have to ask someone if they could see it too

Yes, it would be diamond dust. I only saw this once - in 1982, when I lived in Newport, Shropshire, that had that all-time record low temperature, -27.2C. At that time, it was everywhere - very beautiful, but it was soooo cold, and we only had one coal fire to heat the whole house. [shiver emoticon]

Oops, sorry, should have linked here

My boss was talking about this today, said he saw it when he left his house in Edinburgh this morning.

ohhh, that link made me cry (am a bit soppy about nature'n'stuff, ya know, file under "money just can't buy this")

although all this freak weather is inconvenient, you cannot deny it is truly beautiful

I agree AF it is so beautiful that I can't quite get worked up over the inconvenience tbh I love it and can't stop looking out the windows

We had this yesterday. I also wondered what it was and looked at in in awe.