Space Weather Gallery
By Rayann Elzein on June 18, 2023
While rare halos are usually visible in the winter months near ski resorts that use snow machines and therefore blow lots of ice in the air… Yesterday we had an exceptional display despite that we’re in the middle of summer! The parhelic circle was visible with 360° around the sky… a faint 46° halo… And a super rare Wegener arc! I normally don’t look for halos in summer, but when having my morning coffee, I saw the rainbow looking shape way too close to the sun to be a rainbow, I knew that something different was happening and headed out! What a beautiful and bright infralateral arc! Well, no auroras up here at 70°N during these summer months, but nature never ceases to amaze us… And these halos are more rare than auroras!