I was sitting out in my front yard on my porch swing with a wrapped fluffy, warm, purple blanket around me. It was pretty chilly outside little windy but not as much. I was just looking around here and there; singing while texting. I wasn't exactly observing yet. But as I was looking around, I look up and I see this mind blowing sky--
I have never seen this before in my whole life.
On, Thursday November 6, 2014; I see this beautiful moon hidden behind the clouds; that looked like spider web. I mean, it, it was crazy. It was huge. There was no stars. It was only the moon and the spider web looking clouds. The sky was bright. The sky looked more grayish, instead of black. This was intense, and I luckily captured a picture of it.
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| Moon hidden around the Spider web clouds. Taken by: Hetva Patel, on November 06, 2014 |
When ever I observe the sky, I never see clouds this close. I mean, the clouds are all sometimes together but never form such a shape. But this time all the clouds were around the moon forming a spider web.
I wonder why? I mean why only around the moon? It's they are making a boundary for the moon to might escape. Or, maybe were they protecting the moon from something?
To find the solution to my question's I did some research. I was reading the EarthSky, it said that when clouds form a circle around the sun or moon is called Halo around. Halo rounds are a sign of thin cirrus clouds drifting high above our heads. They are a sign of nearby storms.
In the article on EarthSky, Susan Jensen Said "There’s an old weather saying: ring around the moon means rain soon. There’s truth to this saying, because high cirrus clouds often come before a storm. Notice in these photos that the sky looks fairly clear."
Rings around the Moon are caused when moonlight passes through thin clouds of ice crystals high in Earth's atmosphere. On the Cool Cosmas, it said that "As moonlight passes through the ice crystals, it is bent in a way similar to light passing through a lens. The shape of the ice crystals causes the moonlight to be focused into a ring. This is similar to the way water droplets in the lower atmosphere can bend sunlight to create a rainbow." So, this is how it causes for the halo circle to form.
Work Cited
Jensen, Susan."What makes a halo around a Sun or Moon?" EarthSky.org. 16 Mar. 2012. n.d. 09 Nov. 2014.
Jensen, Susan."What makes a halo around a Sun or Moon?" EarthSky.org. 16 Mar. 2012. n.d. 09 Nov. 2014.
"What causes a ring around the moon?" CoolCosams. N.p.n.d. Web. 09 Nov. 2014
I, too, love to sit on my porch swing and look at the sky. I think the sky does amazing things that we often overlook. My dad always says that about a halo around a moon--now I can tell him how right he is.
ReplyDeleteThe picture you took is amazing. There is a lot of details in the photo which makes it easier to see the halo.
ReplyDeleteThe picture of the clouds is really cool to look at. I didn't know a halo around the moon means a storm is coming. That is interesting.
ReplyDeleteI love the pictured you captured. I see the same type of clouds around the moon but I never really paid attention to them.
ReplyDeleteThat picture is very beautiful. It's so interesting all the weird things nature does and how beautiful they come out to be. I look forward to reading more about what you see in the sky.
ReplyDeleteThe picture you took Hetva is beautiful. I mean, when most people try to take pictures of the moon it doesnt come out. Also, the information about the clouds is pretty cool.
ReplyDeleteThe picture is very beautiful I like it because whenever I try to take a selfie with a moon I can't so it's beautiful also your information about the clouds is good.
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