by Peggy Robin
This column comes about a dozen days after the eye-popping appearance of the weather phenomenon “Cloud Iridescence” in our area. I would have posted about it in last week’s Still Life with Robin column but I wanted to give priority to Restaurant Week (tomorrow, August 21, is the last day!). And it’s not like the photos would become outdated in the meantime.
Here’s your spirit-lifting dose of “Cloud Iridescence” which lit up the skies on August 9, mainly over Loudon County, VA. (If the photos don’t all come through on this platform --Groups.io is rather stingy with its allocation of images!)--you can view the photos at All Life Is Local.
Lisa J
McGrail 8:24 PM · Aug 9, 2022 from Ashburn, VA · Twitter
Kevin Fliess @kevinfliess 6:58 PM · Aug 9, 2022 from Ashburn, VA· Twitter
Hey @capitalweather - what do you call this cool
rainbow coming off this beautiful cumulus cloud?
More about “Cloud Iridescence” here:
….plus a simpler scientific explanation, along with an incredible photo gallery of images here:
https://earthsky.org/earth/iridescent-clouds-have-rainbow-colors/
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Still Life with Robin is posted on the Cleveland Park Listserv and on All Life Is Local on Saturdays.
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