{"id":279500,"date":"2026-05-21T13:53:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T13:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/279500\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T13:53:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T13:53:37","slug":"did-you-see-the-strange-cloud-over-tampa-bay-this-morning-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/279500\/","title":{"rendered":"Did you see the strange cloud over Tampa Bay this morning?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Did you notice a unique cloud hovering over the Tampa Bay area Thursday morning?<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">If you looked to the sky at sunrise around 6 a.m., a strangely-shaped cloud, otherwise called a noctilucent cloud, could be seen after it was formed by <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SpaceX\/status\/2057399571589054711\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:SpaceX&#039;s early morning launch;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;SpaceX&#039;&quot;}\" class=\"link \">SpaceX&#8217;s early morning launch<\/a> from Cape Canaveral.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">10 Tampa Bay News Meteorologist Courteney Jacobazzi explains a noctilucent cloud is formed when a rocket launches around sunrise, causing the exhaust to be illuminated from the sun&#8217;s early rays.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;That exhaust freezes in the upper atmosphere because it&#8217;s very cold up there,&#8221; she said. &#8220;As it comes up it refracts the light through those ice crystals and get that neon-blue color that make them look so beautiful.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The unique, jellyfish-looking shape of the cloud is due to how fluid Earth&#8217;s atmosphere is, causing it to morph into different shapes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Did you notice a unique cloud hovering over the Tampa Bay area Thursday morning? If you looked to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279501,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119252,32055,135,1526,9019,137,136],"class_list":["post-279500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-noctilucent-cloud","tag-rocket-launches","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay","tag-tampa-bay-area","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279500","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=279500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}