Halo no cause for alarm

As scores of Barbadians take to social media highlighting their sightings of the halo around the sun, the Barbados Meteorological Services (BMS) assures there’s no cause for alarm.

It explained: “A halo is a ring or light that forms around the sun or moon as the sun or moon retracts off ice crystals present in a thin layer of cirrus clouds.”

The halo is usually seen as a bright, white ring although sometimes it can have colours like the one visible today, captured by Barbados TODAY‘s Shamar Blunt.