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Lady Freedom Returns

(14,120 posts)
Mon May 12, 2014, 12:19 PM May 2014

'Fire rainbows'

I Found, VIA FB @ https://www.facebook.com/IFeakingLoveScience/photos/a.456449604376056.98921.367116489976035/822203997800613/?type=1&theater


'Fire rainbows'.

The rainbow effect is created when tiny ice crystals in the water vapour of clouds reflect the sunlight at the exact right angle. The sight is rare and has only ever been photographed a couple of times.

Images: (L) Ken Rotberg (R) UC Santa Barbara Geography, via ScienceAlert.
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'Fire rainbows' (Original Post) Lady Freedom Returns May 2014 OP
Wow shenmue May 2014 #1
I was working in the garden one day and looked up and saw Autumn May 2014 #2
Pretty but why don't they call them ice crystal rainbows warrior1 May 2014 #3
very beautiful. Terra Alta May 2014 #4

Autumn

(45,066 posts)
2. I was working in the garden one day and looked up and saw
Mon May 12, 2014, 09:26 PM
May 2014

clouds and the rainbow just like the one on the left. Got pictures of it. Cool.

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