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I have seen several of these fire rainbows (I call them icebows) over my home in Michigan this summer. In the winter I have noticed that these fire rainbows form roughly 72hrs before a snow storm.
Hi -
Seeing the headline, I was all prepared to angrily rant against using the term "fire rainbow," since this newly coined, misleading label is for a well known phenomenon that does not resemble a rainbow in either appearance, cause, or position. Then I read the text and saw that the writer correctly identifies it as part of the treasured circumhorizontal arc -- a stunningly gorgeous phenomenon rarely seen from the northern half of the US. So, I've done a "180" and am glad that our knowledgeable writer is helping to popularize this amazing apparition. Despite "fire rainbow" being a recently created term frowned upon by most meteorologists, perhaps (since language does change, after all) it will not only "stick" but help promote awareness of the sky.
April's moon, the pink moon, is indeed pink when it rises. Go outside and look next April.