PORTLAND (WGME) --Optical displays like sun dogs and halos have been spotted across Maine recently, but what causes them? This week’s Climate Chronicles question comes from Amber: The key ingredient: ...

It’s a colorful sight in the sky that may seem both fleeting and incomplete. Chances are you’ve seen what appears to be a sliver of bright color up there near sunrise or sunset. That’s called a sun ...

When you look up at the sky on a cold morning and catch a bright patch of light sitting beside the Sun, you may wonder why something so striking appears without warning. You might have seen ...

Wednesday morning was another cold day with temperatures below zero. There are many times when it gets this cold and there are some cirrus clouds in the area we get a chance to see sun dogs either ...

Every once in a while, you may look up towards the Sun and see strange bright lights on either side of it. Or perhaps you’ll be sitting in an aircraft, looking out the window at its shadow and see a ...