Cloud-a-Day image for Tuesday 20th January 2026

Tuesday 20th January 2026

‘We dance around in a ring and suppose.
But the secret sits in the middle and knows.’

From the poem ‘Ring Around’ by Robert Frost, first published in Poetry Magazine (April 1936).

22-degree halo spotted by Sylvia Alcaraz (Member 48,594) over Lutz, Florida, US. This ring around the not-so-secret Sun was caused by light refracting through tiny hexagonal columns of ice in this high layer cloud, Cirrostratus.




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