The internet was left in shock over a “rainbow cloud” that emerged over a city in China like some interdimensional phenomenon. A clip of the meteorological anomaly amassed more than 28 million ...

A rainbow cloud is a similar rainbow, halo, sundog, circumhorizontal arc, because it forms due to the diffraction or refraction of light. In 2018, a similar "fire rainbow" was spotted in Vermont.

Many of our viewers have captured pictures of rainbow clouds and this is actually called cloud iridescence. Meteorologist ...

Cloud iridescence, sometimes called 'rainbow clouds' or 'unicorn clouds,' occurs through diffraction, when sunlight is scattered by small, uniform water or ice droplets in the sky.

What causes a rainbow cloud to form? These colorful clouds, also known as nacreous clouds, tend to form over polar regions in the lower stratosphere between 68,500 and 100,000 feet in the air, the ...

However, the phenomenon was not a rainbow but, in fact, a cloud. The ‘rainbow cloud’ was spotted on August 21 in the sky above China's Haikou. Pileus cloud.