Parhelion

This was a unique sight on Saturday: a rainbow on each side of the sun! It’s a parhelion, or sundog. It’s formed by rays of light refracting through ice crystals, just like they do with water droplets to form a rainbow.

I saw this as a bunch of low clouds rolled past. The remnants of the clouds caused this phenomenon to occur, and it disappeared when the skies cleared completely.

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