{"id":177788,"date":"2026-03-04T13:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T13:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/177788\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T13:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T13:48:08","slug":"what-was-that-cloud-hovering-over-tampa-bay-wednesday-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/177788\/","title":{"rendered":"What was that &#8216;cloud&#8217; hovering over Tampa Bay Wednesday morning?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you looked up in the early morning, a weird-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 weird-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 form in the sky before eventually being shaped like a heart.<\/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 weird-shaped cloud could be seen after it was formed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-177788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}