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YESTERDAY, clouds very similar to those seen a year ago made their appearance, and there were a few of them again this morning. I first noticed them at 11.30 a.m., and they were extremely magnificent after sunset, showing three or four spectra of colour, and they were especially striking about 4.10 p.m., when they appeared very bright against the purple glow of the sky. Their chief difference from the clouds last December was that they were not bounded by straight lines, and that there was no special amount of blue in the colouring, as was usually the case a year ago. The chief colours were pink and green.
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BACKHOUSE, T. Iridescent Clouds. Nature 33, 199 (1885). https://doi.org/10.1038/033199b0
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