Technically, it's neither a rainbow nor fire.
The National Weather Service says it is actually called a circumhorizontal arc that forms when you have ice crystals in high clouds.
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Technically, it's neither a rainbow nor fire.
The National Weather Service says it is actually called a circumhorizontal arc that forms when you have ice crystals in high clouds.
Sundogs often form in pairs on either side of the sun, looking like detached pieces of rainbow
This is the moment a rare sundog appeared in the sky, making it look like there was a halo over Cornwall .
People across the duchy were sharing their photos of the phenomenon last night which created a 'second sun' in the sky.
The halo effect appeared over St Ives , while in Newquay it looked like a streak of rainbow alongside the sun.
Yesterday was the hottest day of the year so far, and forecasters say it could get hotter, with no sign of a let up in the sun for the next few days.
The Met Office has issued a heatwave warning with an 80 per cent chance we could see potentially dangerous levels of hot weather between today, Tuesday, and Thursday.
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People across the duchy were sharing their photos of the phenomenon last night which created a 'second sun' in the sky.
The halo effect appeared over St Ives , while in Newquay it looked like a streak of rainbow alongside the sun.
Yesterday was the hottest day of the year so far, and forecasters say it could get hotter, with no sign of a let up in the sun for the next few days.
The Met Office has issued a heatwave warning with an 80 per cent chance we could see potentially dangerous levels of hot weather between today, Tuesday, and Thursday.
© Angie Hutton
People near Memphis, Tennessee, thought they spotted a UFO a couple of weeks ago, but meteorologist have determined it to be a “roll cloud”.
People near Memphis, Tennessee, thought they spotted a UFO a couple of weeks ago, but meteorologist have determined it to be a “roll cloud”.
It was an ominous, cylindrical mass that some likened to a UFO.
The mysterious sight prompted at least one person to snap photos, wondering what this UFO-like image might be.
Colby Hutton saw the mass in the sky over Adamsville, Tennessee, as he was driving over a bridge, his mom Angie Hutton told CBS News.
Angie shared her son's photo on Facebook, hoping someone could help them identify what it was. Local news station WMC-TV looked into the case.
It wasn't an unidentified flying object, and despite it's odd appearance, it has nothing to do with aliens at all.
© Micaela Ford
Tyngsborough
Tyngsborough
The optical phenomenon known as a circumhorizontal arc occurs due to the refraction of sunlight in ice crystals, according to the National Weather Service.
7News viewers spotted the beautiful spectacle in Tyngsborough, Lynn and Reading.
© National Weather Service - Seattle
Noctilucent clouds is a fancy term for "night clouds," which are exactly what they sound like: clouds that are visible when the sky is still mostly dark. The clouds are composed of ice crystals located in the Earth's upper atmosphere, where they become visible during what is known as "astronomical twilight.'
According to local news agency KGW8, the noctilucent clouds became visible between 3AM and 4AM local time, when they appeared to be wispy, white, and bright. Due to how thin they are, the clouds - which are the highest in the atmosphere - aren't visible once the sun is up.
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The video, titled 'Tsunami from Heaven' shows blue skies turning grey as rain clouds swoop in over Lake Millstatt in Carinthia, Austria. It doesn't take long to see why photographer Peter Maier gave the video its title, as the downpour of the rainstorm does indeed look like a tsunami coming from the heavens.
Comment: Epic looding around the world is on the rise and according to one study atmospheric are expected to rivers to double in size:
"However, because the findings project that the atmospheric rivers will be, on average, about 25 percent wider and longer, the global frequency of atmospheric river conditions - like heavy rain and strong winds - will actually increase by about 50 percent." Atmospheric rivers are long, narrow jets of air that carry huge amounts of water vapor from the tropics to Earth's continents and polar regions.See also:
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These "rivers in the sky" typically range from 250 to 375 miles (400 to 600 kilometers) wide and carry as much water - in the form of water vapor - as about 25 Mississippi Rivers. When an atmospheric river makes landfall, particularly against mountainous terrain (such as the Sierra Nevada and the Andes), it releases much of that water vapor in the form of rain or snow.
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- Massive flooding in Europe during the Little Ice Age
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Russia's Soyuz rocket
Russia's Soyuz rocket
People across Russia took to social media to post dazzling pictures and videos featuring a mysterious object flying over them in the night to Sunday. Searching for an explanation, some said it could have been a UFO. Others said the white oval object leaving a massive trail could be a sign that Russia's state of the art ICBM Topol-M had been launched.
However, alien-seekers were left disappointed, as it turned out to be a Russian Soyuz 2.1-b rocket, which was launched at 12:46am Moscow time (21:46 GMT) from the Plesetsk test launch site. Several hours later, the carrier rocket's Fregat booster put the Glonass-M navigational satellite into orbit. The satellite will join the group of Russia's Global Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS), which currently has a total of 25 objects, one of which is currently undergoing flight tests.
Comment: There are a great many signs that our atmosphere is changing:
- SpaceX rocket launch spooks Californians with eerie glowing trail (VIDEOS)
- Strange skies: Red Sprites in Oklahoma, aurora Steve in Canada, iridescent clouds in Illinois and noctilucent clouds in Denmark
- Changing atmosphere: Red sprites and a blue jet seen above Europe's stormy skies
- Noctilucent rocket fumes filmed over Okinawa Island, Japan
- Elusive anti-solar arc captured on film during take off in Sweden
- Sunlight drips through clouds and strange arc of dotted light spotted in sky at Missouri River (PHOTOS)
Comment: With the rise in rare and unexplained phenomena in our skies, clearly something is changing in our atmosphere:
- Changing atmosphere: Red sprites and a blue jet seen above Europe's stormy skies
- Rare green flash sunset photographed flickering into even rarer blue in Norway
- Strange skies: Red Sprites in Oklahoma, aurora Steve in Canada, iridescent clouds in Illinois and noctilucent clouds in Denmark
- Elusive anti-solar arc captured on film during take off in Sweden
- Sunlight drips through clouds and strange arc of dotted light spotted in sky at Missouri River (PHOTOS)
- Stunning iridescent cloud captured over Ribeirao Claro, Brazil (VIDEO)
© Trish Lanfear
It's a "fire rainbow," WCAX reports. The phenomenon has made headlines before, and it's technically called a "circumhorizontal arc," National Geographic explains.
A similar fire rainbow made headlines in San Francisco less than two months ago. The National Weather Service shared several photos of that fire rainbow and an explanation from meteorologist Roger Gass.
Our usual high clouds may reach up to four to five miles, but noctilucent clouds occur around 50 miles up in the earth's mesosphere - basically on the edge of space. These clouds are made up of very tiny ice crystal - 100 nanometers or smaller. A nanometer is 1 billionth of a meter.
Researchers are still looking for a clear explanation of these clouds. They know that they only occur around local summer, and they know they only occur at higher latitudes. But much of their origin is still being figured out.
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