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Bingers 30 Dec 2010
Whilst skiing in the Vosges this afternoon, I saw a strange rainbow. It was a perfect arc, but of cloud, not of light, having none of the traditional rainbow colours. Later there was another one in another position a few hundred metres away.

What's all that about then?

If it helps, there was fog/cloud just a bit lower down the slopes and a lovely blue sky above.
 Tom Last 30 Dec 2010
I n reply to Bingers:

I saw a moonbow earlier this year which was spooky as hell. Could yours have been a fog bow?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fog_bow

Bingers 30 Dec 2010
In reply to Southern Man:

Good, but it was a bit puffier that those pictures, like they were real clouds.
 pdufus 30 Dec 2010
In reply to Bingers: youtube.com/watch?v=OQSNhk5ICTI&

hope this can help.
 Bulls Crack 30 Dec 2010
In reply to pdufus:
> (In reply to Bingers) http://www.you...
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> hope this can help.

What a strange reaction. has he not seen one before?

RE OP possibly reflected light into the fog?
Bingers 30 Dec 2010
In reply to Bulls Crack:
> RE OP possibly reflected light into the fog?

No, definate clouds.

Etrange. I'm going to ask Le Moniteur tomorrow.

 Boogs 30 Dec 2010
In reply to pdufus:
> (In reply to Bingers) youtube.com/watch?v=OQSNhk5ICTI&
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> hope this can help.

That was disturbing viewing & listening was he cracking one off ? what a strangeling . I'm guessing the poor dog has to live with that k@nt . I think if I was there I would of had to of said look mate go & snort some more special cakes & f@ck off you mentalist .

Some Americans are great aren't they ?. 80S
 pdufus 30 Dec 2010
In reply to boogie man: Quite difficult to watch. 22,882,147 people have seen that clip.
 Tom Last 31 Dec 2010
In reply to pdufus:

Definitely one of the more ridiculous things I've seen on youtube.
 Jim Braid 31 Dec 2010
In reply to Bingers: I've seen that on a couple of occasions in Scotland in similar weather conditions to you. Impressed me so much I thought I'd coin a new word for it - cloudbow. Only thing is I'd been beaten to it. Check it out on Google. I'll see if I can upload a photo though from memory it didn't come out that well. Probably only interest the two of us.
 Jim Braid 31 Dec 2010
In reply to Bingers: There's one photo up, just waiting on the second one to be approved. Unfortunately no photos of the other time I saw a cloudbow.
Bingers 01 Jan 2011
In reply to ankyo:
> (In reply to Bingers) Snowbow?
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> http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2545/3868453390_4811f48415.jpg

More like it.

Have now found this site:

http://www.atoptics.co.uk/droplets/fogdrpsz.htm
Bingers 01 Jan 2011
In reply to Jim Braid:

Thanks Jim, that is pretty much what I saw. Seeing them at all seems quite rare, so I must have been lucky to have seen two on the same day.
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