If you happened to be looking up at the sky on Tuesday night around California’s San Gabriel Mountains, you might have noticed a strange phenomenon. No, it wasn’t a giant cloud front moving in — it was a “bloom” of ladybugs gliding through the air, and at first, it was quite confusing to weather forecasters.
The large echo showing up on SoCal radar this evening is not precipitation, but actually a cloud of lady bugs termed a "bloom" #CAwx pic.twitter.com/1C0rt0in6z
— NWS San Diego (@NWSSanDiego) June 5, 2019
Mark Moede, a forecaster with the National Weather Service, said, “The radar was showing there was something out there. We looked at the satellite image but there weren’t clouds that size in the area.” After a bit of investigation, it was discovered that the phenomenon was actually a giant group of ladybugs, called a “bloom,” moving across the sky. “It’s an annual bloom that happens around this time of year,” he said.
