A hidden treasure

SKY WATCH FRIDAY time! Please visit Klaus, Sandy, Ivar, Wren, Louise and Fishing Guy, the team for SKY WATCH FRIDAY (click the word to link and participate!) Thanks to Dot and Tom, who were instrumental in the success of this blogging event. You should definitely come fly with us! As I was looking through my archives since nothing is going on locally worth photographing, I stumbled upon this shot, and when I really looked at it, I noticed something I hadn't initially seen.A solar 22° halo with a glimpse of an upper tangent arc!!! Seriously, I had not noticed it before, since it was so faint, but what a treat it was to find it today.

The best tangent arcs wing outwards from where they touch the 22º halo directly above and below the sun. Their colours are bright yet delicate with red sunwards. On less favourable days they can be just local brightenings of the 22° halo.
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22º radius halos are visible all over the world and throughout the year. Look out for them (eye care!) whenever the sky is wisped or hazed with thin cirrus clouds. These clouds are cold and contain ice crystals in even the hottest climes.
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It might still be hard for you to see it... so here is the same image with the contrast and coloration edits, and you see it just pops out at you! What a treat for an otherwise, dismal weather day. Foggy mornings, hazy afternoons, warm temperatures, clear and sunny, that's a summary of my days lately. Meanwhile, snow and dropping temps not too far north, once record highs contending with now record lows, blizzard... yuck. I'll take my haze any day. I have plenty of archive to keep me occupied.

Have a lovely day!
~Dewdrop