There are fortunate cases where one can witness very rare events and find oneself capturing with a camera an incredibly evocative spectacle like that of ” rainbows of fire “. On the Instagram account of the American Cessna Kutz appeared the photo of a horizontal rainbow that magically colors Lake Sammamish in Washington state. A circumhorizontal arc is a rainbow that has nothing, in fact, to do with fire: it is a phenomenon due to the refraction of the sun in certain ice crystals.
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image credit: Instagram / Cessna Kutz
According to experts at the University of Santa Barbarian, this is not a real rainbow, but a rare phenomenon of refraction of light that occurs when the sun is above 58 degrees above the horizon ; in this way, the sun’s rays pass through the mist and reflect on the ice.
And that’s exactly what happened at the dawn of a day that perhaps seemed “like any other day.” Cessna Kutz shared the spectacular event on her account, accompanying the photo with a message of hope.
May it be a sign of love and hope for the future: feelings that we should try to replace for those of anxiety and fear.
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image credit: Instagram / Cessna Kutz
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