Supermoon’s occur because the Moon’s orbit around Earth is not perfectly circular, but slightly elliptical – meaning it is sometimes closer to us than at other times.<\/p>\n
When the Moon is in “perigee” – or near its closest point to Earth – and that coincides with a full Moon, fully illuminated by the sun’s light, we call it a supermoon.<\/p>\n
The Moon appears larger and brighter in the night sky.<\/p>\n
Clear skies will also mean a great view of the Moon but sometimes you might also see a ring around the Moon.<\/p>\n
Known as a 22 degree halo, this occurs when there is a layer of very high, ice cloud in the sky.<\/p>\n
Light from the Moon passes through the ice crystals where it bends and reflects creating the ring effect.<\/p>\n
The presence of a the ice cloud in the sky can be an indicator of an approaching weather system and hence why the folklore suggests ‘rain real soon’.<\/p>\n
Early on Friday morning high ice cloud moved in across southern areas of England where the halo was spotted.<\/p>\n
So, rain real soon?<\/p>\n
Yes, rain will be spreading to most parts of the UK during Friday with a strengthening wind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Supermoon’s occur because the Moon’s orbit around Earth is not perfectly circular, but slightly elliptical – meaning it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":613773,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3844],"tags":[70,413,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-613772","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-space","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115666909043722770","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}