Crepuscular Rays Above Heathrow, Florida
March 18, 2007
Provided and copyright by: Christina Liu
Summary authors & editors: Christina Liu
The photo above shows a fine example of crepuscular rays emerging from the serrated edges of a cumulus congestus cloud. Crepuscular rays form when sunlight is scattered by clouds, dust, haze, or other aerosols to form alternating beams of light and shadow that appear to radiate from a single point. Note also the shadow cast by this same cloud -- just above its sunlit upper edge. Photo taken from near Heathrow, Florida, just before sunset, on November 26, 2006.
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