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Anyone See The Ring Around The Sun From Bkk?


bkkmick

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its actually a common phenomenon , they occur when there is a thin veil of high level cloud , e.g. cirrostratus , and this often preceeds a warm front by a day or so. these high level clouds contain ice crystals and the light from the sun passes through 2 adjacent faces of the hexagonal ice crystals , and as the crystals have random orientation , the light is spread in every direction and appears as a circle around the sun with a radius of 22 degrees.

as can be seen from bkkmicks great photo , the inner edge of the circle is red , then yellow in the middle with a bluish outer edge , exactly the opposite sequence to a rainbow.

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I live in Chiang Mai and I was swimming at a pool with my son when looking up with my sunglasses on I noticed it too. It was awesome and in my 36years, have never seen this before. I just made a search of the net now to see if anyone could explain it and was amazed at all the responses.

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its actually a common phenomenon , they occur when there is a thin veil of high level cloud , e.g. cirrostratus , and this often preceeds a warm front by a day or so. these high level clouds contain ice crystals and the light from the sun passes through 2 adjacent faces of the hexagonal ice crystals , and as the crystals have random orientation , the light is spread in every direction and appears as a circle around the sun with a radius of 22 degrees.

as can be seen from bkkmicks great photo , the inner edge of the circle is red , then yellow in the middle with a bluish outer edge , exactly the opposite sequence to a rainbow.

I hate it when people give such vague answers, next time, please try and be just a little more specific. :o

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