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> I have a special interest in cloudbows. I've only seen one in my
> whole life, and I didn't know what it was when I saw it. I mean, it
> was obviously something shaped like a rainbow, yet appeared to be
> made of clouds, but I'd never heard of them before. Luckily, I was
> on vacation when I saw it and took some pictures. When I got the
> pictures back, I researched it and found out that what I saw was a
> cloudbow!
Hello, Bev!
I looked your WWW page about cloudbows. Very nice, indeed.
I also includes it into the METEOPTIC home page link list
(http://www.funet.fi/pub/astro/html/eng/obs/meteoptic/).
One question: How you can call one bow as cloudbow and another
as fogbow. You are talking in your page that cloudbows are
pure white, but fogbows could some colours. Bob Greenler
mentioned in his book "Rainbows, Halos and Glories" that
white rainbows are called often cloudbows _or_ fogbows.
I am a little bit confused of this terminology. What I saw
in your photos, I should call them as fogbows. Is it so,
that fog is just stratus clouds which extending to ground
level? There is, a think, not very big difference between
cloud and fog..
Well if see a bow on clouds from airplane, I surely call it
as cloudbow.. but if there is fog on gorund level I will
call it surely fogbows. But tell me, what I have been, when
I observed in last March bows at 2000 m altitude in La Palma.
In First case there were clouds below me in Caldera (a wide
volcanic crater or valley) and I saw white bow there and also
small glory around my shadows. I guess those clouds were
few kilometers away from my place. In the second case there
came cloud from see and there climbed up the mountain. Few
hundred meters from me I saw well defined (much sharper than
in the first case) bright white, red/blue-edged bow. Should
we call these cloudbows?
I got some nice photos, which I could perhaps put into WWW.
-VeikkoM-
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