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[Friends just call me Ross]

Flat Rainbows??? 

 

 

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The story behind the flat rainbow!
 
Kristine Todd captured this great photo of "rainbow colours" across the sky in Halifax.
    

Summer is the season for showers.  Daytime heating triggers afternoon showers;  these showers offer relief from the heat and often paint glorious rainbows across the sky.
The other day, a viewer called the weather centre asking about a horizontal rainbow in the sky.  She said there were no rain clouds in sight, yet this lovely rainbow stretched across the sky. 
 

What the caller described was not a true rainbow; this rainbow of colours is called a circumhorizontal arc.  It looks like a rainbow that's been set on fire, but this phenomenon is as cold as ice.
 

The arc isn't a rainbow in the traditional sense because it’s a result of light passing through wispy, high-altitude cirrus clouds made up of tiny ice crystals. The sight occurs only when the sun is very high in the sky (more than 58° above the horizon). What's more, the hexagonal ice crystals that make up cirrus clouds must be shaped like thick plates with their faces parallel to the ground.
 

When light enters through a vertical side face of such an ice crystal and leaves from the bottom face, it refracts, or bends in the same way that light passes through a prism. If these crystals are aligned just right, the whole cloud lights up in a spectrum of colors.
With a circumhorizontal arc or flat rainbow, the red is on the upper side of the line of brilliant colour.

 

by Cindy Day, Meteorologist, CTV Atlantic
http://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/ctv-news-at-5/weather-blog/the-story-behind-the-flat-rainbow-1.1408757

Circumhorizontal arc?
Think I'll just stick with 'flat rainbow'.

[Friends just call me Ross]

When I first saw a picture of China's Rainbow Mountains, I thought for sure it had to be photo-shopped.

Research proved me wrong.  China's Rainbow Mountains are the REAL deal.

 

 

 

 

How incredibly cool--and colorful--is that?

 

[nanceebgd46]

Ross,

I am stupefied ....I've never heard of this mountain range,  but how could I've not seen it somewhere??. That surprises me, because they are so beautiful, exotic and one of a kind.  I would have thought that some show like 60 Minutes would have done a story on these phenomenal mountains.  They are truly a visual gem...thanks for sharing your pictures.

 

 

Edited April 25, 2016 by nanceebgd46

[Tbs77]

When I first saw a picture of China's Rainbow Mountains, I thought for sure it had to be photo-shopped.

Research proved me wrong.  China's Rainbow Mountains are the REAL deal.

 

 

 

 

How incredibly cool--and colorful--is that?

 

Awesome!... Peru has a rainbow mountains, too! Amazing ..

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[Friends just call me Ross]

57 minutes ago, nanceebgd46 said:

Ross,

I am stupefied ....I've never heard of this mountain range,  but how could I've not seen it somewhere??. That surprises me, because they are so beautiful, exotic and one of a kind.  I would have thought that some show like 60 Minutes would have done a story on these phenomenal mountains.  They are truly a visual gem...thanks for sharing your pictures.

 

 

 

I was just as stupefied as you.  Unbelievable that I had never seen a photo of them til today.

That's why I thought they had to be fake. 

[hatcheckgirl]

Well, no flat rainbow or rainbow mountain here.  But I offer you my frog.  I found it in my garden yesterday, and I was just so excited!  He is cute, hey?

 

[Friends just call me Ross]

He's adorable!...for an amphibian.

A real prince of a frog, if ever there was one. 

[bagwell1987]

I have about 3,000 outside my back door you're welcome to. They even try coming in the house if the door is left open long enough. Well so does the squirrel and the chipmunk, looking for the sunflower seed I have in the door. Then we have bear, a deer with her 2 little ones, neighbor dog.....

[hatcheckgirl]

Sorta jealous, Cheryl

City living means I get  excited about a little frog in my courtyard garden.

[campanula]

6 hours ago, Friends just call me Ross said:

A real prince of a frog, if ever there was one. 

None. I've checked. 

[Friends just call me Ross]

What do you get the person who's got everything?

 

Here are  a few  practical/impractical gift suggestions:

 

How about...

 

A yacht garage

 

So they can park their little boat in their big boat.

 

Or a violin-shaped swimming pool

 

 

To go along with their grand piano in the garden.

 

 

And, you can't go wrong with a glow-in-the-dark driveway

 

To guide them safely to their front door during a power outage. 

 

 

 

 

[Sheep]

Yeah, but what do you get him if he already has all those too?

[Friends just call me Ross]

5 minutes ago, Sheep said:

Yeah, but what do you get him if he already has all those too?

 

[hatcheckgirl]

 

I had to choose which cute cat to upload, so this lovely kitty gets my 'Kitty of the Week' award.  Not cute in the traditional sense, hey?

More here: http://www.lovemeow.com/this-kitty-with-forever-worried-eyes-will-steal-your-heart-1608537987.html

[kejedo]

We have had hundreds of acres of forest burned, in a fire that lasted three days. So many helicopters dropped water, there were some horizontal  rainbows. I think the fire is out b/c it has rained.  Police made calls, late last night, that the emercency situation was not over, but I do not believe anyone was actually evacuated.

[bagwell1987]

Pauline that's terrible. Isn't it unusual for fire this early in the season? Or am I wrong

 

[bagwell1987]

[Friends just call me Ross]

[bagwell1987]

Saw this as an article in Mother Earth News and learned about fruit walls. I've always wondered why Europeans had so many brick walls. Here's at least partially why they did or  else they used a protective wall for a 2nd purpose-  http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2015/12/fruit-walls-urban-farming.html

 

Isn't this pretty? A multi functional wall. The article said they could form the walls around each other to make a sort of micro-climate where they could grow things usually only grown in Mediterranean regions. Fascinating. Looks like apples here or maybe figs?

 

Here's an example of this micro-climate growing. So much to learn in the NS from those of times past in how to do all sorts of things now deemed  impossible, or at the very least horribly expensive.

 

 

This is a fruit wall that eventually had glass attached, to form a now commonplace green house,

[Tortuga]

Rocket the Giraffe. 

 

[miacheck]

This photo is of me, my son, and the rest of our group in Utah last September.  We went to Utah to do unassigned territory.  It was an awesome experience!

[Tbs77]

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That's my DOB!

[Alexa]

Brother tbs77, what is that?

[Tbs77]

Oops! My DOB!

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[Tbs77]

Brother tbs77, what is that?

Those are known as collar stays...They keep a brother's collars down and not curling up.

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