Morning all! The wind is still blowing a hoolie outside and it's lashing down but, what a difference a few degrees makes! From -5C a few days ago to 9C this morning! That makes the Storm slightly more bearable! Meanwhile in Norway, an extremely rare moon halo captured by photographer David John. Enjoy!
@homebird Whoa, y'all have had warm weather!
We went well below -40C last week. It was bad.
That is a very nice photo! I'm assuming that halo is due to ice crystals in the atmosphere.
It's slightly less cool for me because I always see enormous starbursts/halos around bright lights like the full moon, espc those with a relatively high color temperature - IIRC it has to do with the fact that at one point I had a huge amount of glass splinters embedded in both eyes. Vision's otherwise good tho.
@IrelandTorin Oh crikey, Torin! That sounds intensely painful! -40 sounds like a cold version of hell! I am not sure I could stand that for very long! You would need a lot of heat to cope with temps like that! And yes, the halo is because of ice crystals. Beautiful, aren't they?