The colorful circumzenithal arc, if it exists, will appear on top of this ring. Most read. 1. Perry Stein. Trump can keep National Guard in Los Angeles, appeals court rules. 2.

Thanks to Sue of Campbellsburg, IN for sending in this pic. The one at the top of this post is the close up of the circumzenithal arc and the one below is the whole picture. The sun was at the ...

The portrait-mode photo captures two more halo phenomena that were high up out of view in the original photograph: a superlateral arc and a circumzenithal arc. The former curves downwards, while ...

Per The Weather Channel, the ethereal, multi-colored half-circle is known as a circumzenithal arc.It's not really a rainbow since it's not caused by raindrops. The atmospheric phenomenon occurs as ...

To see a circumzenithal arc, the sun has to be at about 22 degrees above the horizon. This happens more often in colder months when the sun's angle is lower and we are more likely to see a mostly ...

No, this isn't an upside-down rainbow, and the photographer hasn't faked the picture. It's an unusual phenomenon caused by sunlight shining through a thin, invisible screen of tiny ice crystals ...

Here are similar links for the circumzenithal arc and a gallery of example photos. Finally here's one last link to another nice circumorizontal arc image featured at spaceweather.com. Keep looking up!

From top to bottom, a colourful circumzenithal arc, a faint supralateral arc, an upper suncave Parry arc, a bright upper tangent arc, and 22° halo photographed in Salem, Massachusetts on October ...

At Keystone Science School, we highlight and celebrate the celestial events that happen in our ever-changing night sky to teach about Earth and space science. We don’t just teach facts about the ...

We love receiving photos of the Weather Where You Live, and this one had us taking a second look! One viewer wrote in from Grant, saying: “WHNT, I wanted to share this photo with you. The clo… ...