Residents of the city of avalon in the US have seen the horizontal rainbow

We believe that even triple rainbow – a rare natural phenomenon is very beautiful and almost always causes a mixed feeling of delight and surprise. But residents of the American city of avalon (NJ) the other day, watched even more difficult "heavenly sign" - a horizontal rainbow.

Horizontal rainbow called fire. In principle, it's just a cloud, a kind of painted by the sun, a kind of halo. In nature this phenomenon you can often observe at the equator. For him, says meteorologist National weather service, USA Dean Yovino, it is necessary to respect some unique conditions of elevation of the sun above the horizon at the level of 58-60 degrees, Cirrus clouds with hexagonal ice crystals, certainly arranged horizontally. You understand that such coincidences can be even at the equator are very rare, and because the horizontal rainbow in the world has seen few.

Residents of avalon just got lucky, but because on the days social network is literally full of photos with this rare halo. Fortunately, now every pocket has a smartphone with photo and video camera.

Translated by «Yandex.Translator»