Metereologist Jean Suriel has been reporting on the solar halos that have been visible in different places in the Dominican Republic this year. A search online shows people have been talking about them since they began appearing in January 2025.
Recent reports are from people noticing them in the skies of the Cibao region.
Jean Suriel explains that when people can see a halo around the sun, it is an optical phenomenon caused by light refracting through ice crystals in high, thin cirrus clouds. This is similar to how a prism separates light into a rainbow.
In the case of solar halos, the clouds at high altitudes contain millions of tiny ice crystals. When sunlight passes through these crystals, it bends (refracts) and reflects, creating the appearance of a bright ring or circle around the sun.
Moreso, Suriel reports on the weakening of the passing cloud of Saharan dust and that the recent intense rains were caused by two passing weather systems.
The good news is that while a heat wave is impacting the northeastern USA, in the DR nights have cooled off because way up in the atmosphere, there are those chilly temperatures. The same ones that have caused the solar halos.
Indomet reports that the country will continue to feel the impact of passing Saharan dust, while the rains will be scant through Thursday, 26 June.
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24 June 2025