On Monday, an interesting optical phenomenon appeared over Bialystok. A colorful “light shield”, called a wreath, formed around the sun. One of our readers captured her in the picture.
The wreath usually occurs in the form of a “light shield”. Then it is colorful, but does not show such a expressive color system as the rainbow, in which the red color always appears on the outside. Thanks to this, such a “light shield” takes on a spherical shape with a layered structure – explains the synoptic of tvnmeteo.pl Damian Zdonek.
Eye -catching optical phenomenon You could see today in Bialystok. On contact24 we received photos from one of our readers.
– Intensive colors were to take place, it took about 10 minutes – wrote Mr. Szymon.
A wreath around the sun. How is it created?
As Damian Zdonek explains, the wreaths around the sun (or moon) arise due to the diffraction (deflection) of light rays while passing through drops of water in the clouds.
– Therefore, a factor necessary for the appearance of a wreath are clouds consisting of water droplets, usually they are clouds of low or medium floor (most often it is a cloud altocumulus) – adds the expert.
Source of the main photo: Szymon Dykiert/Contact24