TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) – A thin layer of clouds spreads across the Tampa Bay area through the day today creating filtered sunshine. It will still be warm and breezy with highs in the mid 80s.

Image credit: Jeff Slater, Flickr // CC BY-NC 2.0 One of the most impressive sights that fills the sky near a thunderstorm is a thin, flat cloud that covers an area miles around like an umbrella.

Where skies like these could happen Monday: Areas from the Southern Plains to the mid-Atlantic and much of the north-central US High level clouds are thin and wispy and can cover much of the sky ...

Puffy cumulus and drab stratus are mainstays in the scenery of our everyday life, but there are some extraordinary clouds ...

it is because there are ice crystals present in the sky. So how do sundogs form? Ice can reflect, refract or scatter light. When ice crystals are suspended in very thin clouds around the sun ...

"I opened the door of the room and saw this show in the sky. It looked like a painting ... which drift into thin, wispy clouds. The diffraction and interference of light by these crystals ...