A winter rainbow? I was looking into the sunset on Feb.18/06 and a rainbow was on the left & right of the sun?
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These are refered to as sun dogs.  The light is being refracted by ice crystals in the upper atmoshere and that is what give them the rainbow effect. They would be positioned at 45 degrees on either side of the sun (like you saw). You know it is going to be very cold weather when you see sun dogs.
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A rainbow will never be a straight line.  They are not fixed in location.  A really small segment of a really big rainbow might look straight, but it is just curved to an inperceptably small extent.\n\nthe rainbow appears in a place that is ~41 degrees from the shadow cast by your head in the sunlight.  All of the places that fit this description will arch around in a circle.  However, there must be a lot of distant, small droplets for the full circel to be seen.  This can happen in the air, or if you're on the edge of a mountain with the sun right behind you, but usually more than half of all such points are in the direction of the ground, and there's no raindrops in the earth that can reflect a rainbow back to you.\n\nIf you've ever seen a fine-mist sprinkler on a sunny day, you might have seen the full circle.  But usually, you only see a small section of the total possible rainbow.
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Extremly pale misty blue and you can see the moon which appears stark white right now-\nI wish it was a golden orange sky like right when the sun goes down thats my favorite I wish it could stay dusk for atleast 5 hours or so that would be so COOL
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Somewhere over the rainbow!!
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14 Feb.\nRoses are red, \nGrass is Green,\nIs there any more beautiful day, \nwe have ever seen?\n\nSorry, I am a bad poet, but I do have a right to try. ;-)
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what you see on the cirrus clouds (the streaks, or tails) and slowly fading away is actually snow. blown byt the winds =)
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rainbow\n\n\n...c'mon
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It is a second rainbow caused by the way light reflects inside of raindrops.  They will appear between 50 and 53 degrees above the horizon and the colors are inverted.  There is also a band of darker sky between the two, this is called an Alexander's band.
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no. rainbows are actually circular, and therefore have no end or beginning. they seem to end at the horizon, but actually continue on the other side. i know it sounds weird, but if you see them from above, in an airplane, you can see the whole circle.
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it occurs when solar radiation from the sun interacts with the magnetic field around the Earth (its strongest around the poles..so thats why theres a northern..AND southern lights...and no "Middle" lights lol)\n\ni can't wait to see it some day
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Just came in from feeding the birds and my fingernails are blue.. brrrrrrr. Trade me places I hate winter. Actually its not to bad there is no snow on the ground and it was moderate for late winter yesterday.(light jacket weather) Today is supposed to be colder tho. Sometimes we get snow up until March.
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In the part of Wisconsin US where I'm at it is sunny with a few clouds once in a while. Our neighbor was mowing lawn today (I think he's the first person in the neighborhood so far.\n\nEnjoy the storms you're getting, it's been pretty dry up here lately (for the most part(
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G'day mate. We are from Oregon, USA, and it's spring, finally. Hope you don't mind us borrowing the  sun for a bit. You can have it back in December.
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Here's what happens: imagine you're standing with the Sun at your back looking at a water drop. As a light ray from the Sun hits the drop, it is bent inwards, toward the center of the drop. It bounces off the back of the drop (coming towards you again) and then refracts again on its way out. As a result you see the light ray appearing to come from some point behind the drop, that is, on the opposite side of the sky from the sun (which is where you see rainbows!) \n\n\nBut what about the colors? It turns out that each color of light is bent a little bit differently - red light is bent the least and violet the most. So, each color appears to be coming from a slightly different place behind the water drop. \n\nThe rainbow is circular because only drops located at certain places on the sky (in a circle around the point opposite the Sun) redirect the light exactly back toward your eye. It's only the light from those drops that you see, and hence you see a circle.\n\nanother explaination: This is difficult to envision and to describe, but we'll use some real common sense objects for our model. Picture yourslf standing in front of a tunnel, like you might find under a bridge - a nice even, round, smooth tunnel. Now, if you cast a shadow parallel to the ground, like a shadow from a power line (not the pole, the line - which is parallel to the ground) and let the shadow fall inside the tunnel, you can imagine that the shape of the shadow on the ceiling of the curved tunnel looks as though it is arced, even though the source of the shadow is a straight line. Can you picture that? This is what is happening in the atmosphere. The rainbow is actually a straight line, since light travels in a straight line. Its just that the straight line is falling across a 'fish bowl' like pocket of moist, reflective air, like our tunnel in the model. The rainbow appears, therefore, to be an arc.
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There was a full moon out June ll.. what you saw was a reflection (either in water, or a mirror image) of the full moon. Are you into astrology? The war in the sky sounds like a zodiac of sorts. What was involved in the war? (What is going on around you? any turbulence? it's merely a reflection of this..) the reflection thing.. get it? mirror/water.. lol. it's easy! lol
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Why is the sky blue ?  Why is the sun yellow ? That is a very logical question guy please, lemme see um cause maybe JUST MAYBE if we do it standing up like you guys, how do I put this umm not a pretty picture right ?  so duh !
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Tomorrow, 4/13/06.  At least according to my calendar.  We cannot see the moon here as we have had rain for about six weeks straight.  I would love to see it!!