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“Fire Rainbow” lights up the NJ sky Tuesday (5/26). Here’s why it happened.
A “fire rainbow” glistened in the daytime sky Tuesday in New Jersey. A circumhoriztonal arc, or “fire rainbow”, happens when the white sunlight from the sun is directed toward high clouds. High clouds are made up of ice crystals, which act as a prism, bending the sunlight into the colors you see here. While these…