Earlier this week, TMJ4 meteorologist Brian Niznansky logged a superior mirage in a photo by a Sheboygan resident. Taken from banks of Lake Michigan in Sheboygan on Monday night, the picture shows ...

Earlier this week, TMJ4 meteorologist Brian Niznansky logged a superior mirage in a photo by a Sheboygan resident. Taken from banks of Lake Michigan in Sheboygan on Monday night, the picture shows ...

Earlier this week, TMJ4 meteorologist Brian Niznansky logged a superior mirage in a photo by a Sheboygan resident. Taken from banks of Lake Michigan in Sheboygan on Monday night, ...

The type of mirage we’ve been talking about is called an inferior mirage. But it’s not the only kind. Superior mirages occur when the warmer air is above, not below, the cooler air. This often happens ...

This creates two kinds of mirages. The first, a superior mirage, is what you see in the spring and summer when the sea is much cooler than the summer's hot air, Tong said.

A superior mirage happens when a layer of cold air sits close to the water’s surface, with a warmer layer above it.In this case, cool sea surface temperatures in the lower 50s combined with ...

A superior mirage occurs when light rays are bent downward due to changes in temperature & density. In the case of this morning, these rays were bent sharply enough to make a distant ship appear ...