Yes, This Photograph Shows a 'Fire Rainbow'

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✅ Yes, this photo — which a Snopes reader sent us in 2006 — depicts a “fire rainbow,” one of the rarest of all naturally occurring atmospheric phenomena.

Yes, the above-displayed photo — which a Snopes reader sent us in 2006 — depicts a “fire rainbow,” one of the rarest of all naturally occurring atmospheric phenomena.

For the phenomena to occur, clouds have to be cirrus, at least 20,000 feet in the air, with just the right amount of ice crystals. Also, the sun has to hit the clouds at precisely 58 degrees., was captured on a camera as it hung for about an hour across a several-hundred-square-mile area of sky above northern Idaho, near the Washington border, on June 3, 2006.

In general, a circumhorizontal arc appears when the sun is high in the sky , and its light passes through diaphanous, high-altitude cirrus clouds made up of hexagonal

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