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Sheep clouds in the brick sky usually portend a change in weather. In fact, the saying goes: “Heavy sky, before three days wet” (in Catalan, “al cel cabretes i al terra pastetes”, that is, “when the sky there are goats on the ground there are little pastes”).
Depending on the type of clouds we see in the sky and their behavior, we can obtain useful information about the weather. You have to look at its height, the direction of the wind and its shape.
In Cardona, in the Bages region, once the goats were destroyed, this solar halo emerged, photographed for La Vanguardia’s Readers’ Photos. It is also considered to announce a change of time.
The solar halo forms around the sun, presenting an iridescent ring on its outer circumference, due to ice crystals when there are high clouds.
The halo is caused by ice particles suspended in the troposphere that refract light, generating a spectrum of colors around the Moon or Sun.
It is an optical effect in the shape of a disk around the sun – or the moon – and has an iridescent ring on its outer circumference.
