Square Rainbow

On Friday May 27, I saw this odd Square Rainbow in the Southern WI Sky's. Just to let you know these were taken from my Blackberry Phone cam. I know the quality is not great but its what I had on hand. There was not any major clouds in the sky at the time, but the ones that were there were moving across the sky at a fairly good clip, where as the rainbow seemed stationary. My nephew and my mother also witnessed this rainbow. I found it fairly odd. I went camping for the weekend, and there I met another guy who also had snapped a picture of the odd rainbow, he said he took his from about 15 miles SW from where I took mine. Just wanted to get some thoughts on it...

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Earthquake's can create those.

reply to post by chaakin


As can swamp gas !

What does it meeean???

When I see these sometimes I think they are areas large amounts of radiation are comming thru the atmosphere..

My friend from Alaska calls them sundogs. It's a fairly common event. It's the sun reflecting off moisture particles in the clouds. She said Alaska gets them all the time. I have seen them in earthquake videos though.

This might shed some light on your rainbow:

news.nationalgeographic.com...

Known in the weather world as a circumhorizontal arc ...

The arc isn't a rainbow in the traditional sense—it is caused by light passing through wispy, high-altitude cirrus clouds.

If I had to alarm I'd say 30 minutes before the Sichuan Earthquake (China, 2008) clouds like yours were seen in the region... Precisely these:

[atsimg]http://files.abovetopsecret.com/images/member/7f729e761d97.jpg[/atsimg]


But the truth is that those are cirrocumulus under the Cloud Iridiscence condition en.wikipedia.org...

A beautiful gift of Nature

Originally posted by ancientmustytext
What does it meeean???

So beautiful!

Originally posted by hope4better
On Friday May 27, I saw this odd Square Rainbow in the Southern WI Sky's. Just to let you know these were taken from my Blackberry Phone cam. I know the quality is not great but its what I had on hand. There was not any major clouds in the sky at the time, but the ones that were there were moving across the sky at a fairly good clip, where as the rainbow seemed stationary. My nephew and my mother also witnessed this rainbow. I found it fairly odd. I went camping for the weekend, and there I met another guy who also had snapped a picture of the odd rainbow, he said he took his from about 15 miles SW from where I took mine. Just wanted to get some thoughts on it...

Sorry to sound a bit dumb ... but not being from the US, is WI Wisconsin ?
If so this link may be of interest. (or if not, it's still interesting)

www.youtube.com...

thats a rectangular rainbow btw.. someone doesn't know geometry
Anyways, cool photo, never seen a rainbow look like that.

i saw one of those in western new york state last friday afternoon

pretty neat

wow thanks for all the info being just above the New Madrid I was kinda freaked out, but since there was no earth quake I figured it must have been just moisture in the air... cool site to see though, and ye WI is Wisconsin

found some videos on you tube reguarding this and possible earthquakes, although the earthquake never happened.....

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2010TheCountdown is a member here, I dragged him over a short while ago after viewing some of his other video's