We've all seen rainbows before, but have you ever heard of a phenomena called a fire rainbow? The proper term for it is circumhorizontal arc and it's actually an optical phenomena - a ice-halo formed by plate-shaped ice crystals in high level cirrus clouds. 'What is happening here is that on sunny afternoons, cumulus clouds boil upwards, pushing layers of moist air above them even higher where t…
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