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Kortenhoef, North Holland, Europe
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An engineer from Herefordshire manages to catch a sun halo while carrying out maintenance work.

Sun halos occur when water droplets in high-altitude cirrus clouds freeze and form crystals.

Paul Simons, the Times weatherman, said: “As the sunlight goes through the ice crystals it is as if it’s going through a glass prism. The light is beamed out into an arc. The best Sun halos can be found in the Arctic and Antarctic — but in Britain at the moment we have the ideal conditions.”

Photo: Ian Collins via the Times website