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We believe that even a triple rainbow is rare a natural phenomenon, very beautiful and almost always provocative mixed feeling with delight and surprise. But the residents of the American city of Avalon (New Jersey) recently watched more the more complex “heavenly sign” is the horizontal rainbow.
Horizontal rainbow is also called fiery. In principle, this is just a unique cloud, peculiarly colored by the sun, one of varieties of halo. In nature, this phenomenon is most often possible watch at the equator. For him, says Meteorologist National US weather services Dina Jovino, must be respected some unique conditions like the rising of the sun above the horizon at 58-60 degrees, cirrus clouds with hexagonal ice crystals, located certainly horizontal. Themselves understand that such coincidences can even be at the equator rare, but because few people saw the horizontal rainbow in the world.
Residents of Avalon were just lucky, but because the other day social networks literally filled with photographs with this rarest halo. Fortunately, now everyone in their pocket has a smartphone with photo and video camera.
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By the way, since horizontal rainbow is the rarest natural phenomenon, then many Americans not only admired, but also they were frightened of him, counting him as an evil sign in the sky. Or maybe it good? But lately, US residents have no good future they don’t wait, and therefore, judging by the comments on the photos, cautiously perceive even a rainbow, albeit unusual.
For example, one of the inhabitants of Avalon wrote that he for his entire For a long life I have never seen anything like it, but because in the first the queue thought: is it again or the military have made something wise, or aliens scare us, or God himself announces the end Sveta.
And at this time, young people, especially from among the visitors, laughed and with might and main removed this “burning cloud” on their gadgets …
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