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Old August 19th 09, 10:30 PM posted to uk.sci.weather
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Default Weird Rainbow?

On 19 Aug, 19:34, (Gareth Slee) wrote:
Photo taken from our hotel in Florida. Never seen anything like this
before...

http://twitpic.com/ehpmx

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Gareth Slee


It's part of a halo, caused by the ice crystals from what looks like
Cb anvil on the right - and therefore caused by reflection/refraction
in ice crystals, not reflection from water droplets as in a rainbow.

Can't tell exactly what halo effect it is without details of where in
the sky it was in relation to the sun, however. Nice and bright.

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