A Ring Around the Sun
There is a pretty high chance that you’ve seen this before and thought nothing of it, and then later that afternoon got drenched by an unexpected freak thunderstorm that you wish you could have avoided. Well, lucky for you, there is a perfectly helpful explanation that can prevent you from getting caught without your umbrella ever again. This ring that can be seen around the sun in the summertime is when very thin cirrus clouds drift in front of the sun, and the rainbow ring you see is actually the sun’s reflection off of billions of water droplets suspended in the air. When this happens, you can expect a thunder cell to develop within the day.
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