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THERE was a very striking display of iridescent clouds this afternoon. I noticed it first at about 3.40 p.m. The prismatic colours were pretty strongly marked, and the intense pearly brilliance of the delicate cirri was most striking. It is still visible 4.40 p.m.), though, of course, its lustre is much diminished. A gale is blowing from the west, and there has been an orange after-glow. Similar phenomena were described in your columns about this time last year. They were well seen in this part of the country.
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GREENHOW, E. Iridescent Clouds. Nature 33, 199 (1885). https://doi.org/10.1038/033199a0
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