Rare upside-down rainbow spotted in the UK

[Dave Monroe]

Rare upside-down rainbow spotted in the UK
By Rebecca Camber
Last updated at 3:20 PM on 17th September 2008


It appeared in the sky for the briefest of moments.

A dazzling arc of psychedelic colour reminiscent of the Cheshire Cat's
grin in Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland.

But this is no fantasy or trick of the light, it is known as a
circumzenithal arc. Seen here shimmering in the sky over Cambridge in
the afternoon sunshine, it is often mistaken for a rainbow hanging
upside down....

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