oh no! more evano!
23/October/2009
![(Something passed along in forwarded email that wasn’t photoshopped! Thanks, Rob!)
It’s a circumhorizon arc, an atmospheric phenomenon requiring thin cirrus clouds at greater than 20,000 ft and the sun at greater than 58° above the horizon. This particular display was seen in Spokane, WA in 2006. A journalist described it as a “fire rainbow,” and the name seems to have stuck. That irks the author of the fantastically informative Atmospheric Optics website to no end (I think he/she is the author of the Wikipedia article, too), because this very literal person says, [emphasis not mine]
“The halo is not a rainbow and has nothing to do with fire.”
Not even a touch of poetry in the soul.](http://13.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_krz0j3XcmY1qzp486o1_500.jpg)
(Something passed along in forwarded email that wasn’t photoshopped! Thanks, Rob!)
It’s a circumhorizon arc, an atmospheric phenomenon requiring thin cirrus clouds at greater than 20,000 ft and the sun at greater than 58° above the horizon. This particular display was seen in Spokane, WA in 2006. A journalist described it as a “fire rainbow,” and the name seems to have stuck. That irks the author of the fantastically informative Atmospheric Optics website to no end (I think he/she is the author of the Wikipedia article, too), because this very literal person says, [emphasis not mine]
“The halo is not a rainbow and has nothing to do with fire.”
Not even a touch of poetry in the soul.
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