...and yes, the rain came down the next day, as you will see in the second part of the post.
Something different in here, as at first I will show you two examples about the contents of this post. First the sun halo (Tag shot), and then the evidence of rain (1 shot).
Then I will share the rest of the sun halo shots, and finally the rest of the wet squirrel shots.
I have seen many sun halo views, and even posted about them, with a clear explanation of how they are formed, but then we moved to a farm in another province, and I became big friends with the farm laborers. One day, another sun halo appeared, and I was surprised when he shouted out that rain is on its way. What? I asked him how he knew, and then he said that the sun halo was their rain sign.
Ha! I didn't believe him and told him that I think that it's an old wife's tale. Well, it turned out that he was right, as it rained on the next day. The same thing happened now as you will see the evidence in this post. So, look at the first two shots and you will see for yourself that it is true, as the sun halo is indeed a rain sign. In the future when you see a sun halo, then don't plan a picnic the next day. Lol.
And here's the evidence that a sun halo is a rain sign, as this happened on the next day.
I tried to take a bird shot in the sky, but then I saw a part of the halo in the right-hand top of the picture.
So, I jumped into the car and travelled around to get some more sun halo shots.
Here below is a short description in Wikipedia about how the halos are formed.
The ice crystals responsible for halos are typically suspended in cirrus or cirrostratus clouds in the upper troposphere (5–10 km (3.1–6.2 mi)), but in cold weather they can also float near the ground, in which case they are referred to as diamond dust. The particular shape and orientation of the crystals are responsible for the type of halo observed. Light is reflected and refracted by the ice crystals and may split into colors because of dispersion. The crystals behave like prisms and mirrors, refracting and reflecting light between their faces, sending shafts of light in particular directions.
Okay, now I will show you the rest of the wet squirrel shots below.
Look what appeared on a beam above our study window. You can see that he only glanced down to check if I had seen him.
So, I glanced back and then he gave me a full on stare: Saying Hey are you blind? Can't you see how wet I am? Now please come and give me some nuts!
Yep! He won the day, and my wife gave him plenty nuts (raw peanuts).
Can you believe that the wet little squirrel did not eat all of the nuts, but rather ran to bury most of them? Instead, he ran on to the lawn on the sidewalk (pavement) at the front of our house to bury the nuts in different spots. I just hope that he was not planting a peanut farm. Lol. Yes, I may joke, but we got into trouble once when the squirrels planted nuts in the flowerbeds of some neighbours. They forgot where they planted the nuts and they started to come up as peanut plants. But we moved to another place and thankfully nobody here minds where the squirrels plant their nuts.
Such is life.
I hope you enjoyed the pictures and the story.
Photos and words by Zac Smith. No AI and no Photoshop. All-Rights-Reserved.
Camera: Canon PowershotSX70HS Bridge camera.
Until next time. Shalom!