24.8.07

What? A circling rainbow?

Singapore, yesterday, had an unusual sighting. A halo around the sun indeed. Scientifically it's named an "icebow". Here's a "borrowed" picture from STOMP of the rare phenomenon:


Quoted from Wikipedia:

"An icebow is phenomenon similar to a rainbow except that it is formed by the refraction of sunlight through cloud suspended ice crystals as opposed to raindrops or other liquid water suspended in the air."

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