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Jun Lao: "Re: Color in wispy clouds" (Oct 6, 1:27):
>
> The colors in the clouds were quite temporary. A shift in the
airplane's
> direction would make
> them vanish, and they'd only hang around for a few seconds. Their
> coloration reminded me of
> the rainbow colors one sees when you look at a spray of water on an
early
> morning or late
> afternoon, and the spray is opposite the direction of the sun. The
colors
> would seem to flit
> quickly into view, and then disappear. Probably the same mechanism as
the
> water spray,
> but only this time, the clouds were displaying the color. Thoughts?
>
One can also see a rainbow, or a cloudbow, from a plane. However, cloud
droplets are so small no colours should be visible in such a bow. Were
the colours you observed there were a rainbow would have been?
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