I'm not sure it's entirely fair to assign a particular meaning to the woman's question, but on the other hand I wasn't there.
(She might have meant something along the lines of 'what causes that to happen?' In which case the answer would have been something like 'It means that there are ice crystals in the air; this causes the light from the sun to refract the sunlight, resulting in the halo.' Or not.)
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Date: 2005-03-29 08:41 pm (UTC)(She might have meant something along the lines of 'what causes that to happen?' In which case the answer would have been something like 'It means that there are ice crystals in the air; this causes the light from the sun to refract the sunlight, resulting in the halo.' Or not.)