Per The Weather Channel, the ethereal, multi-colored half-circle is known as a circumzenithal arc. It's not really a rainbow ...
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He said what looks like an upside down rainbow is an circumzenithal arc caused by the refraction of sunlight through horizontally-oriented ice crystals.