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In Las Fotos de los Lectores de La Vanguardia we can see the first sunrise of the winter with some thin clouds and a solar pillar from the Riuet beach, in Sant Martí d’Empúries, in L’Escala, in the Alt Empordà region.
A pillar light is an atmospheric optical phenomenon in which a vertical beam of light appears to extend above and/or below a light source.
The effect is created by the reflection of light from small ice crystals that are suspended in the atmosphere or that comprise high-altitude clouds (for example, cirrostratus or cirrus clouds).
If the light comes from the sun (usually when it is near or even below the horizon), the phenomenon is called a solar pillar, as in this case in L’Escala.
As we see in the photographs, the reflection of the solar pillar is elongated, so much so that in this case it goes into the shore of the beach already on the sand.
