A good friend of mine sent me a link from her FaceBook page to mine with these stunning photos of Fire Rainbows.
They are amazing!
Also there is a whole discussion about the type of clouds on the FaceBook site and some sort-of ugly comments of people to each other about the phenomenon. I’m just warning you, so if you read them you will understand they are not something I’m involved with…I just loved this rare and beautiful sky and wanted to share it with you. The Photo is by Livescience–as you see— and the photos are on the the Global Coherence Initiative. I have not really read or studied anything about the Global Coherence Initiative — I really just loved the photos and wanted to share them with you.
Your friend,
Linda
Life on a Colorado Farm 
Beautiful photos!!
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These are stunning, and I’ve never seen anything like this. Amazing!
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That is amazing! That would be the sight of a lifetime!
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Beautiful!
It really is sad that so many people on FB want to argue and insult.
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Oh wow, so beautiful, thanks for sharing. I’ve never heard of fire rainbows.
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Lovely photos Linda, thanks for sharing them. I’d never heard of this phenomenon.
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I probably won’t go to that site, but I’m sitting here amazed that anyone could come up with ugly thoughts about clouds. Some of us need to just grow up.
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People no longer communicate, they “snark” instead. I’ve discovered many purposely attempt to annoy readers and others think their quips amount to knowledge.
There’s a very interesting paper about this very phenomenon; “We Are All Confident Idiots.” http://www.psmag.com/navigation/health-and-behavior/confident-idiots-92793/
It seems almost everyone accepts information which confirms their bias’ in life and rejects information which conflicts with those bias’. When this happens (and it happens to everybody), they will automatically think the bias-confirming information they’ve gleaned is correct and accurate; they then become very adamant that they themselves are correct in all their assumptions of the topic.
This is most true with people who blindly accept information without any measure of analytical research/critical analysis; e.g. A partisan insists that all taxes are bad and without looking deeper into the issue, people who don’t fully research the impact and need for taxes will inevitably conclude the same, blindly supporting the partisan, even promulgating information they know little to nothing about.
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Exquisite skies Linda.
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Wow! That would be something too see in person!
Cheri
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Wow! Those fire rainbows are beautiful, and new to me as well!
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prettiest sundogs i’ve ever seen! (and why can’t people be kind to one another?)
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What an awesome sight. Thanks for sharing!!!
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They are gorgeous rainbows!
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Boy, there are conspiracy theories about everything these days. SMH. Thanks for sharing the stunning pictures!
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I’ve never heard of these, but it is grey here every where i look so they are very welcome.
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Beautiful. Snowbows instead of rainbows!
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Those fire rainbows are amazing!! I’ve not ever heard of them before, but they are beautiful. Thanks for sharing them!
Blessings!
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Another of God’s creations..absolutely beautiful and thank you so much for sharing ( I think you have enough to do on the farm let alone studying cloud formations)
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Beautiful!
I can’t imagine what people on a page about clouds would find to be ugly to one another about. Sheesh! I’m anxious to read Boomerbob’s link about social media and how people behave.
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Wow! They’re so pretty, they don’t even look real!
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I wonder if this is the same as what someone tol me was called a ‘sun-bow’. If it is, I once actually saw one but not as pretty as these you show.
(That’s what I hate about FB — I’m on it, but barely.
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