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CAN any of your correspondents explain the following phenomenon? At 5.20 p.m. to-day, the sky to the W. and S. being covered with a dense and unbroken mass of cloud, and the sun, therefore, entirely obscured, I saw a broad patch of iridescent colours like a piece of a rainbow on the clouds to N.N.E., many points more to N. than a rainbow would have been had the sun been shining. No part of the sky was clear, but the clouds were lighter in the N.W.
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WALKER, A. Peculiar Clouds. Nature 68, 416 (1903). https://doi.org/10.1038/068416b0
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