solar halo
14
May
Weather

Solar Halo Over San Pedro

Yesterday afternoon thanks to following my instinct and deciding to text tacoboy to see if he was having a good day at work, he replied back right away telling me to look at the sun. I went outside on the veranda, looked up and saw something super cool – a big halo around the sun. Of course I grabbed my camera and started snapping away to get a few good shots of this interesting weather phenomenon – not every day you get to see a solar halo.

Solar Halos occur with cirrus clouds which have a thin and wispy appearance and are high altitude clouds, usually above 20,000 feet. These high altitude clouds are made of mostly ice crystals in the atmosphere which refract sunlight much like a prism does creating the colors of a rainbow around the sun.

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Solar Halo over San Pedro
high altitude Cirrus clouds and solar halo
High altitude cirrus clouds and solar halo
Cirrus clouds and solar halo
Cirrus clouds and solar halo
Halo around the sun belize
Halo around the sun
Rainbow ring around the sun belize
Rainbow ring around the sun
tacogirl

Laurie Norton grew up dyslexic and was very challenged by the school. She never dreamed she would move to Belize and become a writer. A year after her move to Ambergris Caye, Laurie became an entrepreneur and professional writer starting tacogirl blog in 2007. Since then she has helped many people plan their vacations or move. She also has been published in Great Destinations Belize Guidebook, Moon Guide to Living in Belize, Insight Guides, Island Magazine several times and USA Today. Currently Laurie resides in downtown San Pedro and enjoys being a "city girl" on a tropical island.

4 thoughts on “Solar Halo Over San Pedro”

  1. tacogirl says:

    Could also be early warnings of the rain we are about to get ha ha. Hopefully more prepared for that now that leaky windows are fixed than the rapture.

  2. al salter says:

    Could be the early warnings of the rapture. Are you prepared Laurie?
    1 Thessalonians 4:17

  4. Emily says:

    You got some really great shots of it, Laurie. I couldn’t even see what was in my viewfinder when I pointed the camera up towards it it was so bright, so I just pointed and clicked and didn’t get it all. What an interesting phenomenon it was!

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