While outside in the sprinkler my seven year old daughter noticed the clouds. I was surprised to see the effect, and could not explain it to myself when there was no rain in the area.
Rainbow Clouds
by CaleArm24 (Subscribe)
Posted on: Jul 2, 2009 at 5:23 PM PST
Channel: On the Scene
The cloud is made of water vapor, add sunlight at just the right angle and you have a rainbow
yet another instance where man messing with nature creates odd happenings. search chemtrails. that is not a natural cloud.
Beautiful clouds, i've seen some like them before. I found out that they are called, Iridescent Clouds.
frozen water vapor..., ice crystals
how about water from the sprinkler
Its a circumhorizontal arc. The phenomenon occurs only when the sun is high in the sky, and the hexagonal ice crystals that make up high-altitude cirrus clouds must be shaped like thick plates with their faces parallel to the ground. So only summer.
Dawn says ...
On Thursday, Jul 2 at 10:13 PM
Beautiful picture, glad you were around to take it!