A Rainbow of Fire Observed in the Northwest Barry Wigmore/TN (Jun 11, 2006)
'It was even more spectacular than the Northern Lights."
'It was even more spectacular than the Northern Lights."
Last Saturday, on the U.S. Washington, Idaho border, a huge, rare celestial event called a "circumhorizon" -- or a "blanket of fire" --occurred. According to a report in the Daily Mail, it appeared to be a "flaming rainbow" that stretched above the clouds.
Reporter Barry Wigmore explained that a circumhorizon occurs "when sunlight passes through ice crystals in high cirrus clouds, and is one of 15 types of ice halos formed only when the most specific of factors dovetail precisely together."
Dr Jonathan Fox, of the US National Weather Service in Spokane, Washington, said: "It was even more spectacular than the Northern Lights. I feel lucky to have seen it because it only forms in very rare situations."
source : http://www.dailymail.co.uk
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