LINCOLN CITY, Ore. — It’s not always a sight one gets to see as an approaching storm brings a thin layer of cirrus clouds to the Oregon Coast.A rare sun halo with rainbow colors was spotted ...

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 ...

These were visible from approximately Noon until 3 PM, which makes sense because solar noon today was at 1:22 PM…when the sun is at its highest point in the sky. A Double Sun Halo over Lawrence, KS.

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.

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

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 ...

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.

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.

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.

The ring is actually an optical illusion. It is caused when the moon light refracts off ice crystals in a thin veil of cirrus clouds. Those crystals create a giant lens 20,000 feet above us. They're ...