Saturday, June 11, 2011

Circumhorizontal arc

...that's just a fancy word for a FIRE RAINBOW. I researched it a bit and discovered that it is a rainbow formed by plate shaped ice crystals in high level cirrus clouds. Sammy found this one while we were hiking at Cress Creek. Beth & I couldn't believe how intense the colors were....until we took off our polarized sunglasses. It was still pretty, but if you ever encounter one, please, put on those polarized lenses. The view will knock your socks off!

1 comment:

Keri said...

I've never seen something like that...beautiful!