Mysteries, Chemtrails, Aerosols :: Mysterious NZ

[Crakka]

You all know the drill by now - see something like irridescent clouds or strong coronas in the morning and it's an odds on bet you'll see a flash of rainbow colour up there later sometime. It's becoming a VERY regular routine when it's not completely overcast up here in Auckland. But of course we all know there's "ice crystals" up there ALL THE TIME eh? :wink:

So anyway, yesterday was yet another one of those days as seen in the series of pics below - amazing-looking irridescent clouds in the morning (yeah I know my little camera sucks at catching the true colour of this phenomena), strong corona mid-arvo and lo & behold... One thing that's evident this time though is that in the last shot it looks quite obvious to me that the colours ARE actually on the arc of the corona -

[Crakka]

For me that last shot and probably the one just before it show quite clearly that all the occurrences I've been seeing up here are pretty much the same - that the colours are produced on a corona or arc around the sun. It's just that in most cases you don't see the corona itself and the shape of the colour phenomena isn't always an arc. The "beam" of whitish light that can be just seen to be "emanating" from the colours and heading right is quite a common occurrence in photos I've taken - sometimes to the left, sometimes to the right but always appearing in a position like a radius of light originating from the sun as a centre.

However, I guess what one could question is just what it is exactly in the atmosphere that causes the light to behave this way. An almost daily presence of ice crystals up there? I'm sure there's a whole host of "experts" out there willing to give you a simple explanation based on what they've learned from their own educations. All I know f'sure at this point in time is that this simply never used to happen anywhere near as much as it does now...

[Niksta]

It is interesting Crakka, were these pics taken yesterday?
Reason I ask, is coz we had another ring round the sun yesterday,( I even thought about you, nearly took a pic ) and they are promising rain for some of us here in the boondox.

Which is what happened last time you posted pics, the difference being - it's clear in the pics, that rainbowish looking colour is quite plain. So if it's natural, how come I can't see the rainbow look down here? Yet I can see the ring round the sun.

If you hadn't said you were a surfhound I would say "you just noticing it more now"
But when you have watched the sky all your life you know darn well when something new is happening.

[Crakka]