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Just wanted to share an article on the Rochester mirage, courtesy of the very cool Rochester Wiki, which i've contributed small bits and pieces to over the past year and enjoy reading.

The mirage is most likely the result of fata morgana, an optical illusion caused by atmospheric temperature inversion. This also serves as an explanation to my blog's name for those wondering.

I've witnessed this once, although I didn't know it at the time. I was somewhere near Buffalo, on the shore of Lake Ontario searching for interesting rocks (hey, this place used to be glaciers. There are cool rocks around. Don't laugh). And I realized that over the horizon of the Lake, I could very clearly see the skyline of a city, and make out individual buildings.

It was Toronto. And that should not have been possible under regular circumstances. But I saw it. And it was cool, if a bit visually unsettling.

One of these days I'll make one of my Finger Lakes region friends take me to Spook Hill. I figure after seeing this sort of thing, my brain will finally implode. Whee.