It's not often you get a sight like this!
Robin Maluga shot these pictures using her cellphone on Monday January 25th as ice crystals covered parts of Lake Nipissing like a thick fog.
"My husband and I were heading to our ice hut when I captured this 1 in a million shot," she told BayToday. " I was actually trying to capture the mist. Visibility was terrible that day and I was trying to show that we couldn’t see any huts. It was a weird occurrence."
Wikipedia says a Sun halo is the name for a family of optical phenomena produced by light interacting with ice crystals suspended in the atmosphere. Halos can have many forms, ranging from colored or white rings to arcs and spots in the sky.
According to EarthSky website, "these clouds contain millions of tiny ice crystals. The halos you see are caused by both refraction, or splitting of light, and also by reflection, or glints of light from these ice crystals. The crystals have to be oriented and positioned just so with respect to your eye, in order for the halo to appear."
See the video below explaining the Sun halo.
