The sky is the stage for fascinating phenomena : clouds that grow like mountains, lightning that streaks across the night, sunsets that seem to set the horizon ablaze. Some are so commonplace that they have become part of the landscape.
Mariela de Diego Meteored Argentina
Others, on the contrary, only appear rarely and only when very specific conditions come together .
In this less frequent group are the so-called fog rainbows: pale, almost white arcs that resemble regular rainbows, but which conceal a very different physics.
A fogbow, or fog arc , is one of those situations where the atmosphere repeats a known recipe, but a key ingredient is altered and the result is completely transformed.
A rainbow that seems to disappear.
Unlike the classic rainbow, with its well-defined sequence of colors, the fog rainbow is faint. Sometimes it appears white, other…
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