(AP) - Thomas Mullin of Mill Valley, Calif. gets a last look at the sun from Bodega Head, Thursday Dec. 16, 2010 in Bodega Bay Calif., as the first in a series of large Pacific storms move inland, bringing a promise of heavy precipitation and high winds. The thin high clouds ahead of the front produce a halo containing millions of tiny ice crystals which take on an elongated hexagonal shape, refracting the light. (AP Photo/Kent Porter, Santa Rosa Press Democrat)