https://youtu.be/mJbLU7QF57s
Well I lied, sort of. I was going to do another post about "signs in the heavens." I filmed this yesterday and it's pretty wild. Rainbow clouds? What's the story on that? I'll go ahead and tell you that the "official explanation" is "ice crystals," and it may very well be, but the question you need to be asking is "Have we ever seen this before?" and "Why now?" Again they can call it anything they want. That doesn't make it normal. I've been looking at the sky day and night all my life practically and I've never seen anything like this before. And neither have you.
One thing from the Good Book that stuck with me since around the time I started watching the sky, which was before I turned four, was the bit about "signs in the heavens." I was already amazed at the shooting stars I'd see. To think that it could possibly get crazier than that was intriguing to a little kid. Not that all these amazing things in the sky are necessarily "signs," but who's to say they aren't? The only fact is that they're happening, and it's a recent phenomenon.
Not only do I look at the sky every day I look at weather maps daily but It check various satellite charts on atmospheric moisture and temperature, the jet stream and various solar observatories in orbit such as the SDO and CORE 1 and such. Why? Because space weather IS Earth weather. All weather starts with the Sun. The thing about a butterfly flapping its wings and creating a hurricane halfway around the world is cute, and more or less true in theory, but it won't happen without the Sun.
As for what's causing rainbows in clouds passing in front of the Sun, I think it could just as easily not be ice crystals as could. Again these are supposedly the same clouds we've been seeing all our lives. We've been seeing rainbows in clouds for a few years now, but it still stops me in my tracks. This video can't do it justice. It didn't last long and I can see how people who don't look at the sky much would miss it, but I'd think it'd get anyone's attention.
This concludes today's science lesson. I believe the sky is going to get way more interesting, and sooner than later. Oh, I did want to mention some art from several centuries ago. It shows these exact same things we're seeing in the sky- the rainbows and especially the Sun halos. I find that to be very interesting. You know what they say...there's nothing new under the Sun...or around it.
Day or night the sky is interesting lately. Sun halos and incredible cloud formations during the day, and planets heating up and getting brighter at night; not to mention the increase in meteors and even fireballs. These are interesting times. Take a moment to look at the sky some time. You might see nothing, but you just might see something crazy. Heads-up.
