Rainbow Cloud In Lancaster, MA

i was doing some yard work and i looked up and saw it never seen one before i heard that these show up before an earthquake was wondering if that is true also gonna share a picture and a video for you who want to see it .

I've seen quite a few, in multiple states across the south. Once when I lived in Atlanta, and while driving to Houston I saw one in Alabama and Louisiana.

No earthquakes here. =)

reply to post by My.mind.is.mine

yeah wasnt sure if it was true but i know we are close to a small fault line here ...it was cool to see though

en.wikipedia.org...

A circumhorizontal arc is an optical phenomenon - an ice-halo formed by plate-shaped ice crystals in high level cirrus clouds.

reply to post by RealSpoke


seems like this might be what i saw wish there were more clouds in the sky to see if it did for a circular shape ...it was pretty bright

my father always called them "sun doggies" or "sun dogs"
he would say that when seeing those, the weather was supposed to remain the same for the next few days.
He grew up on a farm, and that's probably just crazy "farmer folk tale" talk. or something.

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not in this case it was nice yesterday and rain today

reply to post by diggsnicca
I live in south eastern,mass and i have seen and photographed double rainbows,but i have never seen a rainbow cloud with my own eyes before and i think their called...Circumhorizontal Arcs > en.wikipedia.org...

I think I might have an answer to that.

A transformer blew in Boston and there is a blackout underway.

www.abovetopsecret.com...

Did this happen around 7:30?

reply to post by thehoneycomb


no the exact was 3-12-12 4:27 pm

reply to post by diggsnicca


What direction were you looking?

Amazing you got that on video BTW what were you doing, or did you have a smart phone handy?

reply to post by thehoneycomb


i was facing south west ... yea had my phone in my pocket ...the picture i took was taken before the video i think the video caught its brightness ... it was already going away when i started filming

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I guess Boston would have been in the other direction, in any case it seems the area may be getting some strange solar or earthquake activity.

Not seeing anything on USGS though.

There were recently some pretty sizable quakes among the fault lines in Mexico and Alaska though and a smaller one in OK.

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i live next to clinton Ma and the wachusetts resivour sits on a small fault line ... i think it was 99 or 2000 when i lived there we had a small quake from it shook my house a bit mad things fall of the table

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Go look right now, somebody had posted from eastern canada reporting a gloomy looking bright sky. Do you see anything that looks like northern lights?

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i actually described what i filmed looking like the northern lights ....funny you say that ... it was just so bright

reply to post by thehoneycomb


no i just got a normal gloomy rainy sky here

reply to post by diggsnicca


There are weird related threads popping up now, check out the recent posts, apparently you are not the only one seeing these things. I am pretty far south, don't know if I will see anything unusual, but gonna step out and have a look anyways.

reply to post by diggsnicca


If you scroll down you see them in cloud form, not just halos

That is a sun dog.........however, if you ever see this www.youtube.com..., proceed to change your shorts, and get out of dodge.

According to some folks, these anomalies occur within hours, or up to 110 days before the rattlin' begins.

Not exactly sound science.....but definitely something that needs to be taken seriously.