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Date: August 28, 2022 at 07:50:59
From: shadow, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Chinese locals baffled as rare phenomenon fills sky |
URL: https://www.ladbible.com/news/china-locals-baffled-phenomenon-sky-20220827 |
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Gotta check out the video and pics at link; never seen
anything remotely like this before... ;-0 ;D
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"Look up in the sky, it's a bird, it's a plane, it's a
random rainbow cloud thingy.
Watch below as the spectacular clip is filmed in the city
of Haikou in Hainan Province, on 21 August:
It's safe to say that viewers were stunned after
witnessed the so-called 'phenomenon'.
One person commented: "This is insane. Like a rainbow and
a cloud had a baby..."
Another added: "My whole life would change if i seen this
irl."
"if I had seen this & I was home alone surely I would’ve
thought the rapture come & gone & God leave me," a third
person wrote.
Someone else said: "That's uh... Wow. WOW. This is the
sort of thing that spawns religions."
Well, it turns out that the random rainbow cloud thingy
is, in fact, known as a scarf cloud or a 'pileus'.
It's formed by the cooling and condensation of moist air
forced up and over the peak.
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Date: September 01, 2022 at 17:24:25
From: Sizemore, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Chinese locals baffled as rare phenomenon fills sky |
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Date: August 28, 2022 at 07:53:44
From: shadow, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Woops...;)...rest of article... |
URL: https://www.ladbible.com/news/china-locals-baffled-phenomenon-sky-20220827 |
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"So when the sunlight is at the right angle, the light
diffracts between the droplets and the ice crystals in
the cloud, creating a rainbow colour.
According to SKYbrary: "A pileus, also called scarf cloud
or cap cloud, is a small, horizontal, lenticular-like
cloud appearing above a cumulus or cumulonimbus cloud.
Pileus clouds are often short-lived, with the main cloud
beneath them rising through convection to absorb them.
"Pileus cloud formations are created when the air
surrounding a cumuliform tower is rising so quickly that
it condenses into a smooth umbrella or hood-like shape
once it hits its dew point. As such, they are usually
indicators of severe weather, and a pileus found atop a
cumulus cloud often foreshadows transformation into a
cumulonimbus cloud, as it indicates a strong updraft
within the cloud.
"Pilei can also form above mountains, ash clouds,
pyrocumulus clouds from erupting volcanoes, and some
mushroom clouds of high-yield nuclear detonations.
"Occasionally, bright iridescent colours are seen in
pileus clouds as sunlight is diffracted through water
droplets in the cloud, which are all the stronger because
diffracting droplets are small and similar in size.
"Sometimes several pileus clouds are observed above each
other."
Featured Image Credit: newsflare
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Date: August 28, 2022 at 22:55:11
From: pamela, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Woops...;)...rest of article... that's pretty wild shadow, thks(NT) |
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