{"id":323118,"date":"2026-03-05T11:48:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T11:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/323118\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T11:48:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T11:48:20","slug":"what-was-that-cloud-hovering-over-tampa-bay-this-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/323118\/","title":{"rendered":"What was that &#8216;cloud&#8217; hovering over Tampa Bay this morning?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you looked up in the early morning, a strangely-shaped cloud could be seen after it was formed by SpaceX&#8217;s early morning launch from Cape Canaveral.<\/p>\n<p>ST. PETERSBURG, Fla \u2014 Noticed something strange in the sky Wednesday morning over Tampa Bay?<\/p>\n<p>If you looked up in the early morning, a strangely-shaped cloud could be seen after it was formed by SpaceX&#8217;s early morning launch from Cape Canaveral.<\/p>\n<p>The launch, which happened at around 5:52 a.m., created a unique &#8220;jellyfish cloud&#8221; in the sky, which moved into a heart shape before dissipating.<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo__placeholder\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/b23acb25-ca6b-409e-baf5-350251be8d6c_16x9.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo__main\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/b23acb25-ca6b-409e-baf5-350251be8d6c_1140x641.jpg\"  alt=\"\" style=\"opacity:0\" onload=\"this.style.opacity=1\"\/><\/p>\n<p>10 Tampa Bay News Meteorologist Courteney Jacobazzi explains this was a noctilucent cloud, which happens when a rocket launches around sunrise, causing the exhaust to be illuminated from the sun&#8217;s early rays.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The higher up in the atmosphere you go, the colder it gets,&#8221; she explained. &#8220;And of course, naturally, temperatures get sub-freezing as high as that rocket goes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Not only is the atmosphere very cold higher up, but it is also less dense, which allows the clouds to move more freely, creating the different and ever-changing shapes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you looked up in the early morning, a strangely-shaped cloud could be seen after it was formed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[85,46,141,145],"class_list":["post-323118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}