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Rare Fogbow at sunset Donegal, Ireland

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A fog bow, sometimes called a white rainbow, is a similar phenomenon to a rainbow; however, as its name suggests, it appears as a bow in fog rather than rain. Because of the very small size of water droplets that cause fog—smaller than 0.05 millimeters (0.0020 in)—the fog bow has only very weak colors, with a red outer edge and bluish inner edge.

In many cases, when the droplets are very small, fog bows appear white, and are therefore sometimes called white rainbows. This lack of color is the feature of a fog bow that distinguishes it from a glory, which has multiple pale-colored rings caused by diffraction. When droplets forming it are almost all of the same size, the fog bow can have multiple inner rings, or supernumeraries, which are more strongly colored than the main bow.

This time-lapse of the fogbow was captured at sunset which why it was not more vivid but still a rare capture.

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