(Malcolm Fletcher/Submitted to The Weather Network) It might be best described as a "fog halo enhanced by reflection and scattering"––a hybrid of atmospheric and structural influences.

The ring of light seen around the sun in areas of southern Louisiana today is a rare atmospheric phenomenon known as a sun ...

Halos are often confused with lunar coronas, but the latter are rainbow-colored discs that form when moonlight (or sunlight) interacts with water droplets in fog. Coronas also tend to circle ...

But with fog, water droplets in the air are smaller, causing interference in how the colors split from the sunlight creating the pale white halo. In this footage captured with a drone, the phenomenon ...