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I saw a fire rainbow!!

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Monkeytrousers · 15/07/2008 08:47

it wasn't as big as this one but it was quite astonishing. It was about two weeks ago and I have only just found out what it was. I never knew they existed!

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fishie · 15/07/2008 08:48

what is it?

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watsthestory · 15/07/2008 08:50

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belgo · 15/07/2008 08:50

where did you see it?

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Lemontart · 15/07/2008 08:52

WOW - that is astonishingly beautiful. Never heard of them either.

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Monkeytrousers · 15/07/2008 08:53

www.atoptics.co.uk/halo/cha2.htm

it's a halo rather than a rainbow

It was just in the sky when I was coming home on the bus last weeek. Over Gateshead/Newcastle

I could see it better with sunglasses on oddly, which is why I think not many other people saw it.

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Monkeytrousers · 15/07/2008 08:54

www.atoptics.co.uk/halo/cha2.htm

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Monkeytrousers · 15/07/2008 08:55

that site says "Usually only fragments are visible where there happen to be cirrus clouds. "

That must have been what I saw as it wasn't that big, but still spectacular

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belgo · 15/07/2008 09:03

I think we should all look up in the sky more often

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Monkeytrousers · 15/07/2008 09:06

That site also says "The halo is not a rainbow and has nothing to do with fire."

lol - sorry sir!

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OverMyDeadBody · 15/07/2008 09:06

that is spectacularly beautiful!

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filthymindedvixen · 15/07/2008 09:12

oh I have seen one, last year but we didn't know what it was!! We felt very special as no-one else seemed to see it

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