When the moon's light passes through ice crystals in high-level cirrus clouds, that light gets bent. It gets bent at a ...

Long before meteorology and climate science, Irish people looked to the natural world to forecast the weather and make sense ...

Monday night, we received this message from Jordyn Tracy in Fuquay-Varina. "Hello! I thought you all would find this interesting... I was heading out to go home when I looked up to see what I think ...

You might have heard the old weather saying, “Ring around the moon, rain soon.” Or snow. A ring around the moon is caused by light refracting off ice crystals. It’s also known as a 22-degree halo ...

A halo around the moon put on a show-stopping display Tuesday night. No, it wasn’t aliens, but simply ice crystals making up the high, thin cirrus clouds drifting through the Central Florida sky.

On a goose hunting trip last month Mark from Silvis noticed a gaseous looking cloud ringing the moon early in the morning. He wonders just what that could have been. Sounds like what he saw was what ...

An astronaut on the ISS photographed a "lunar halo" over the Indian Ocean, revealing ice and rare optical phenomena from ...