iridescent clouds
Rainbow-tinted atmospheric wisps
Iridescent clouds display bands of pastel color—pink, green, blue—caused by sunlight diffracting through water droplets or ice crystals.
The effect resembles oil on water or the shimmer of a soap bubble.
Most common in thin clouds near the sun: The iridescent clouds at sunset looked like mother-of-pearl.
- circumhorizontal arcHalo from ice crystals
- nacreousResembling pearl's iridescence
- mother-of-pearlIridescent inner shell coating
- skyVisible overhead expanse
- fire rainbowColorful halo in cirrus clouds
luminescence · opalescent · pastel colors · prismatic · hues · glories · cirrus · colors · coronae · spectral · rainbows · ice crystals · sundogs · light scattering · halos · high altitude · thin air · moonbows
iridescent cloudsthunderheads
Tall, anvil-shaped storm clouds
dark clouds · storm clouds · sunless sky · cumulonimbus · rain clouds
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