Fire rainbow seen over Maui, yesterday
@oahuwriter (26777)
United States
July 8, 2022 7:46pm CST
Last night's news weather reported an unfamiliar words, fire rainbow? Watching Hallmarks movies, I've learnt of a Moonbow, I believe but was Hallmark's Love Under the Rainbow. Last night, fire rainbow report, Khon2 news, adds a new word to my vocabulary.
I received a beautiful tweet today, about Maui's fire rainbow, from, Mauinow.com.
https://mauinow.com/2022/07/07/unusual-rainbow-cloud-sighting-above-ukumehame-maui/
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@LadyDuck (471969)
• Switzerland
10 Jul 22
@oahuwriter - I knew of fire rainbows but never had the opportunity to see one.
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@oahuwriter (26777)
• United States
10 Jul 22
I've never heard of it until news report. I've never seen one either.
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@oahuwriter (26777)
• United States
11 Jul 22
@LadyDuck
Not me, I've never heard of it until news report. Pretty though!
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@Deepizzaguy (103969)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
9 Jul 22
I have never heard of a fire rainbow before tonight.
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@Deepizzaguy (103969)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
9 Jul 22
@oahuwriter There is a first for everything.
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@oahuwriter (26777)
• United States
9 Jul 22
Neither have I, until yesterday's news.
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@oahuwriter (26777)
• United States
12 Jul 22
I've never heard of fire rainbow ever, until news report.
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@oahuwriter (26777)
• United States
10 Jul 22
Me too. Until the so news report on it, I never knew this phenomenon.
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@LindaOHio (181231)
• United States
9 Jul 22
Interesting. Is this the only place that it occurs?
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@oahuwriter (26777)
• United States
10 Jul 22
I don't know. It's rare, and you know, all these decades of news, this is the first fire rainbow, ever reported, that I know of.
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@oahuwriter (26777)
• United States
9 Jul 22
That's when, conditions have to be, just right. From the angle of the Sun, crystals in the sky position just so and in cirrus clouds. Details here:
A fire rainbow is one of the few halos formed by the refraction of light in plate-shaped ice crystals mixed in the atmosphere, typically in cirrus clouds.
@RasmaSandra (80635)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
9 Jul 22
Lovely, This is the first time I have heard about this too, Thank you for sharing,
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