A recent EPOD featured a 'flat rainbow', with the usual colours appearing in a plane, over Paris as it happened. But without any explanation.
Googling this I find that they are not unique, are sometimes called 'firebows' and associated with high clouds and water ice crystals rather that droplets, but the explanations are sketchy. Can anyone explain this picture and the 'flat rainbow' phenomenon, please?
JOhn
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Re: Flat rainbows
I'd suggest it's a circumhorizon arc.JohnD wrote: ↑Thu Jun 22, 2023 8:41 am A recent EPOD featured a 'flat rainbow', with the usual colours appearing in a plane, over Paris as it happened. But without any explanation.
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Googling this I find that they are not unique, are sometimes called 'firebows' and associated with high clouds and water ice crystals rather that droplets, but the explanations are sketchy. Can anyone explain this picture and the 'flat rainbow' phenomenon, please?
JOhn
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