Today being the 60th Independence Day of Malaysia is a public holiday and I decided to bring my son Jonathan for a walk at the Stutong Forest Reserve which was located quite near my house. It was a a bright and sunny day and everything seem normal. I happened to look up the sky and to my surprise there was a rainbow ring circling the sun. It was a beautiful sight and this is the first time that I have seen such a phenomenon. I asked to myself, what could this mean? Is it a sign or an omen of things to come?
The jogging track at Stutong Forest Reserve. Everything seems normal.
As usual, there were monkeys in the forest reserve.
When I reached home, I decided to take another photo of the sun
Sun Halo
This ring around the sun is called 22-degree sun halo by scientists because the radius of the ring is about 22 degree around the sun. Therefore this is actually a natural phenomenon and there is a scientific explanation for its occurrence. The atmosphere around us consist of a mixture of gases (which includes oxygen and nitrogen) and water vapor. It seems that the water vapor condenses and freezes into ice crystals at high attitude. The halo is created when sunlight passes through the ice crystals causing both splitting and reflection of the light. However the halo can also be caused by other fine particles in the atmosphere. As it seems odd that ice crystals can be present in hot tropical Borneo, this particular halo must be caused by the fine particles.
Meaning Of Sun Halos
There is an old saying that the sun halo means that rain will come soon or a distant storm. There is a bit of truth to that as the presence of ice crystals in cirrus clouds can bring rain.
Reference
https://weather.com/news/news/sun-halos-florida-20140416
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