Mitra Taghdisy Realtor

A RAINBOW HALO AROUND THE SUN

The backyard went quiet… then a circle of color appeared where your eyes don’t expect it.

This happened in a U.S. neighborhood at late afternoon, when tall, bright clouds were drifting across the Sun and the air had just enough fine moisture and thin cloud particles to bend the light. The colored ring is a halo/iridescence effect — sunlight passing through tiny droplets or ice crystals in the thin parts of the cloud layer, spreading the light into a soft rainbow band around the Sun’s glow.

The reason it looks so clean here is the timing: low Sun + thick cloud edges + a thin bright layer in front, making the colors show up like a delicate outline instead of a full rainbow across the sky.

You can see this in anywhere you get tall afternoon clouds after heat and humidity: Florida, Texas, the Southeast

Also common with thin high clouds in the Great Plains and Rockies
Best timing: late afternoon, when the Sun is lower and clouds are building but still letting light through.

Look at that face 🐱😂