Sweden: A majestic rare halo that covered the mountains of Sweden left people in an awe of nature.
The featured video shows a spectacular view of the sun as it rose over the Vemdalen ski resort, covering the mountains of Sweden with a halo bent at 22 degrees.
The right-out-of-dream sight was witnessed from the resort by the snowboarders when the sun refracted through a high band of thin cirrus clouds, at a height of more than 20,000 feet from the ground.
Clear and regular-shaped ice crystals in the clouds force the sunlight to refract or bend twice. As the sunlight refracts through these crystals at a precise angle of 22 degrees, the second bend forms the shape of an enchanting halo.
Although sun halos are not quite rare at the poles where the ice crystals are optically pure and hexagonal in structure, in a place like Vemdalen, such formation of ice crystals is quite rare.
The assumption was thus made that the halo over the peaks of Sweden could have been man-made.