Friday, March 29, 2024

Sun and wonders

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A STRIKING?CIRCLE AROUND the sun yesterday morning left many a Barbadian curiously worried. The result: the phones at the Barbados Meteorological Office were soon ringing off the hook.
According to one Met representative, for almost three hours hundreds of panicking people called, concerned about what “thing [was] in the sky”.
“People wanted to know if the world was coming to an end; what was really going on; if it was [a visit from] aliens. But we tried to explain to them in the simplest form what they were seeing.”
Met director Hamden Lovell told the MIDWEEK NATION that the ring of rainbow colours around the sun was called a halo.
According to Lovell, the halo was “a phenomenon that occurs all the time”.
“When you have a certain type of cloud in the sky – cirrostratus, you get refraction of the light and you get that circle around the sun or the moon, which is called a halo,” he said. (AH)
 

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