Stranger still, ice crystals are required, making it all the more surprising one was seen on an Outer Banks summer day. “Have ...

Frigid weather can make for the most stunning ice halos. The Arctic blast pouring into West Michigan was ideal for a ...

Sun dogs. You may have noticed these as a tiny rainbow spot in the sky. I get questions about these all the time. For Sun dogs to appear, you need sunshine and ice crystals suspended in the ...

We are looking at another aspect of optics in the atmosphere and the “cool” stuff you can sometimes see in the winter sky.Recently, we received a weather picture from Karen from Webster. It appears to ...

The sunlight will refract through the ice crystal, which then acts like a prism to scatter and bend the colors. Due to the different wavelengths correlating to the colors of the rainbow ...