{"id":338106,"date":"2017-12-06T03:45:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T02:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/rare-weather-phenomenon-spotted-in-sweden\/"},"modified":"2017-12-06T03:45:00","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T02:45:00","slug":"rare-weather-phenomenon-spotted-in-sweden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/rare-weather-phenomenon-spotted-in-sweden\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare Weather Phenomenon Spotted in Sweden"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>The 22 degree halo effect is caused by clouds floating thousands of feet above the ground.<\/p>\n<p>Skiers at a resort in western Sweden were treated to a rare phenomenon when the sun appeared surrounded by a halo of light.<\/p>\n<p>As it appeared low in the sky it was surrounded by a 22 degree halo of light at the Vemdalen ski resort.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p>Spectacular Sun halo display, with a 22\u00b0 halo, parhelic circle, sundogs and a tangent arc as well as 44\u00b0 parhelia (sundogs) and 46\u00b0 halo, spotted in Vemdalen, Sweden on December 1, 2017 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yUgpfe2heS\">https:\/\/t.co\/yUgpfe2heS<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Sv2OyvlC9G\">pic.twitter.com\/Sv2OyvlC9G<\/a><\/p>\n<p> \u2014 Massimo (@Rainmaker1973b) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Rainmaker1973b\/status\/937045214685990912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 2, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The halos occur when sunlight refracts through a high band of cirrus clouds more than 20,000 feet above the ground.<\/p>\n<p>These clouds, which are characterised as \u201cthin and wispy\u201d, contain million of individual ice crystals as water droplets have frozen in the air.<\/p>\n<p>The sunlight bounces off these crystals making the waves change direction, this is refraction, and this gives the appearance that the sun has an extra halo of light surrounding it, <a href=\"http:\/\/earthsky.org\/space\/what-makes-a-halo-around-the-moon\" target=\"_blank\">EarthSky.com<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists call it the halo because it has an approximate radius of 22 degrees from the sun.<\/p>\n<p>They can also appear around the moon but as it absorbs and reflects light from the sun its rays are rarely strong enough for the halo to be visible.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IR8YU54n1wM\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<section>\n<h2>Comments<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/sun-halo-rare-weather-phenomenon-spotted-in-sweden\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 22 degree halo effect is caused by clouds floating thousands of feet above the ground. Skiers at a resort in western Sweden were treated to a rare phenomenon when the sun appeared surrounded by a halo of light. As it appeared low in the sky it was surrounded by a 22 degree halo of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-338106","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}