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The rainbow about the sun peeking out of cloud clearance

Added	Fri, 01/02/2019
Источники	gismeteo.ru
Дата публикации	Fri, 01/02/2019
Версии	Halo Cloud (natural and man-made) Радуга и радужные облака

Monday, January 28, in the American Linden, Washington, was cloudy. But suddenly, cloud canvas has a hole through which looked about the sun, also known as Tropea or prelicence circle. Ben Ellis at this time, went for a run and took photographs of the celestial phenomenon on your smartphone.

Sundogs are formed in high clouds when the temperature falls below 0 °C, but water droplets in the cloud freeze. They remain in a supercooled liquid state, fragile and unstable. In the case of sudden disturbances, e.g. from a flying aircraft, freezing droplets begin to crystallize in a wave, radiating outward from the point of disturbance. When ice crystals "fell" from this hole, they caught the luminous rays near the sun, forming the rainbow Parghelia.

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