GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Few things can add a splash of magic to your day like an ethereal halo perfectly encircling the sun in the sky, but how do these things form? Conditions must be ...

This striking and often beautiful halo around the moon is caused by the refraction of moonlight from ice crystals in the upper atmosphere.” Scientists refer to this phenomenon as a 22-degree halo.

A sun halo is usually seen as a bright, white ring. But sun halos can sometimes have color, like the one over Yarmouth had. Halos can also form around the moon when moonlight refracts off ice ...

However, he cautioned against assuming that a sun halo guarantees an impending storm. “It’s not a hard-and-fast rule, but it’s often part of the bigger weather picture,” Berger said.

Last week, the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) detected a full halo coronal mass ejection. Fortunately, the Sun didn’t actually burp straight into our direction, so we were safe.

The halo around the sun, however, was unrelated to the eclipse. This type of circular ring of light, which appeared both before and after the total eclipse last Monday, is called a 22-degree sun halo.

NEW ORLEANS — The sun halo, a weather phenomenon that happens when light hits icy clouds at a certain angle, shined over New Orleans and southeast Louisiana on Thursday. WWL Meteorologist Alexa ...

A halo, caused by light hitting ice particles in cirrus clouds, can be seen around the sun Tuesday, January 14, 2024, over Lafayette, La.