What causes a moon halo A Moon halo is created when moonlight passes through ice crystals in cirrus or cirrostratus clouds that remain high in the sky, usually 20,000 feet or more.

Puffy, wispy, white and gray, we’ve seen them all this spring. Clouds come in a variety of types, and each type comes with ...

Metereologist Jean Suriel has been reporting on the solar halo that has been visible in different places in the DR since 19 June 2025. A search online shows people have been talking about them since ...

Have you ever looked up at the sky and been struck speechless by a cloud so strange it seemed like a message from another ...

Have you ever wondered how ancient people knew when a drought was coming—long before radar, satellites, or climate models? It ...

Readers of Pilot’s flight test on the Cirrus SR-22 ‘Generation 5’ aircraft (January 2017) may be surprised to learn that the featured model has already been superseeded. Cirrus is not a company that ...

Cirrus clouds, known for their wispy, feathery appearance, are shaped by strong winds high in the atmosphere. These winds act on the ice crystals that make up cirrus clouds, twisting and spreading ...

Many of our viewers have captured pictures of rainbow clouds and this is actually called cloud iridescence. Meteorologist ...

The summer solstice occurs at 10:42 P.M. EDT, marking the official beginning of summer for those in the Northern Hemisphere. On this date, the Sun is located directly above the Tropic of Cancer at ...

HONOLULU (Island News) -- This morning, satellite images show bands of clouds moving in with the easterly trade winds, bringing brief showers to windward mountain slopes across the islands.

This lid keeps clouds from growing very tall, which means there won’t be many big rain showers today. Some thin, high clouds (called cirrus clouds) will drift over the islands today from a weak ...

What You Need To Know Another noctilucent cloud was visible over Tampa Bay on Friday morning These clouds form in the mesosphere located 30-50 miles above the surface Water vapor from the SpaceX ...