Fire Rainbow
By: acidinterval	Published: 05/18/2007
THIS IS A FIRE RAINBOW - THE RAREST OF ALL NATURALLY OCCURRING ATMOSPHERIC PHENOMENA. THE PICTURE WAS CAPTURED ON THE IDAHO/WASHINGTON BORDER. THE EVENT LASTED ABOUT 1 HOUR CLOUDS HAVE TO BE CIRRUS, AT LEAST 20K FEET IN THE AIR, WITH JUST THE RIGHT AMOUNT OF ICE CRYSTALS AND THE SUN HAS TO HIT THE CLOUDS AT PRECISELY 58 DEGREES. WHY AM I SHOUTING THIS? Why not join the rest of us on the inside and get all of Goofball.com?
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When I read Fire Rainbow (1 reply) started by obiwan (05.18.2007 10:59:31 AM EST) I thought it was an ignited gay fart :oP Awesome pic btw, there should be a link for a full size image.

I feel so much better now .. (0 replies) started by inchpecker10 (05.18.2007 8:08:28 AM EST) I can't tell you how many nights of lost sleep this has caused me ... finally I can throw away my Sominex!!

Snopes.com says: TRUE (1 reply)   started by thegrandpatron (05.18.2007 7:25:33 AM EST) http://www.snopes.com/photos/natural/firerainbow.asp and according to Victoria Gilman of National Geographic News - June 19, 2006 — It looks like a rainbow that's been set on fire, but this phenomenon is as cold as ice. Known in the weather world as a circumhorizontal arc, this rare sight was caught on film on June 3 as it hung over northern Idaho near the Washington State border (map of Idaho). The arc isn't a rainbow in the traditional sense—it is caused by light passing through wispy, high-altitude cirrus clouds. The sight occurs only when the sun is very high in the sky (more than 58° above the horizon). What's more, the hexagonal ice crystals that make up cirrus clouds must be shaped like thick plates with their faces parallel to the ground. When light enters through a vertical side face of such an ice crystal and leaves from the bottom face, it refracts, or bends, in the same way that light passes through a prism. If a cirrus's crystals are aligned just right, the whole cloud lights up in a spectrum of colors. This particular arc spanned several hundred square miles of sky and lasted for about an hour, according to the London Daily Mail. —

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