{"id":182922,"date":"2023-10-25T03:16:09","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T03:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=182922"},"modified":"2023-10-25T03:16:09","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T03:16:09","slug":"rainbow-cloud-wows-small-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/rainbow-cloud-wows-small-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Rainbow cloud wows small town"},"content":{"rendered":"
Stunning photographs have captured a rarely seen ‘rainbow cloud’ above a small farming community.<\/p>\n
The colourful cloud appeared above Goomalling, about 130km northwest of Perth in Western Australia, on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n
Goomalling local Jenni Shaw said everyone was ‘in awe’ of the incredible sight.<\/p>\n
‘It was beautiful,’ she told ABC News.<\/p>\n
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The amazing cloud delighted residents of the small farming community<\/p>\n
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The clouds themselves are not rare but they appear and disappear so quickly they are seldom photographed<\/p>\n
‘But we were a bit like “why is that like that? Should we still be outside looking or not?”‘<\/p>\n
The incredible sight on an otherwise clear sunny day proved that if you want the rainbow you don’t necessarily have to put up with the rain.<\/p>\n
Rainbow clouds, known more scientifically as iridescent clouds, happen when small water droplets or small ice crystals scatter the sun’s light through a process called diffraction.<\/p>\n
While the clouds themselves are not too rare, they are hard to spot and photograph because they typically only last for a very short period of time or appear very high in the sky.<\/p>\n
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The amazing natural phenomenon was spotted above Goomalling, about 130km north west of Perth<\/p>\n
Lucky local residents said it wasn’t the first time they’d seen the special clouds in the area.<\/p>\n
‘I have seen clouds like this a few times in my travels, mostly in the Wheatbelt,’ Jill Lefroy wrote on Facebook.<\/p>\n
‘Pretty awesome seeing a rainbow with no rain!’<\/p>\n