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 ...

This happens when clouds are thin and made of similar-sized water droplets. — -- Stunning video captured a rainbow in the clouds over Ribeirao Claro, Brazil, in a meteorological phenomenon ...

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.

Strange "rainbow clouds" that look like a colorful portal to another dimension have recently appeared across northern skies. These nacreous clouds, also known as polar stratospheric clouds, are ...

Is that a rainbow cloud?Sky-watchers in Salinas spotted a colorful object in the sky at 1:40 p.m. Friday, and some called KSBW's newsroom to ask, "What is it?"I asked KSBW's lead weather ...

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.

The phenomena, though, was actually a cloud and not a rainbow. A Pileus cloud, also referred to as a cap cloud and a scarf cloud, was visible in Haikou on August 21.

There wasn't any rain midday Wednesday, so you know it's not a rainbow. But some of the clouds did turn a vibrant ROY-G-BIV! Courtesy: Marlene Franklin. These rainbow colored clouds are called a ...

BUFFALO, NY — Did you happen to see a rainbow cloud in the sky Friday? According to Storm Team Two's Patrick Hammer, the stunning meteorological phenomenon is called cloud iridescence.

Rare nacreous clouds, known as rainbow clouds, form in the skies over Tynemouth Priory in the northeast of England on Dec. 21, 2023. Owen Humphreys/PA Images via Getty Images ...

A rainbow cloud can occur because of something called cloud iridescence. It usually happens in altocumulus, cirrocumulus, lenticular and cirrus clouds.