Strange "rainbow clouds" that look like a colorful portal to another dimension have recently appeared across northern skies. These nacreous clouds, also known as polar stratospheric clouds ...

A stunning weather phenomenon was spotted over parts of Virginia this week – a so-called "rainbow cloud," which looks like a bright prism of color behind soft clouds. Several people in Hamilton ...

And sometimes, clouds can even shine like a rainbow! Here's why that happens. Over the weekend Storm Team 2 received several photos of clouds high in the sky that sparkled with different colors of ...

As sunlight shines through these crystal clouds, it gets scattered, creating multiple different wavelengths of light, which has inspired the PSCs nickname, "rainbow clouds." Due to the extreme ...

Following the sweeping path of a cold wave through the Arctic, the skies were alight with rare polar stratospheric clouds, which presented a rainbow-like show throughout the sky. Images of the ...

Rare "rainbow clouds" formed in the early morning, creating waves of yellows, pinks and blues above homes. Locals took videos of the clouds, which give the sky an almost oil slick-like sheen.

A spectacular movement of rainbow-colored clouds has been spotted in the skies above Scotland. The rare view was captured near Nairn Beach on Christmas Eve, shortly after sunrise around 9 a.m ...

A rare rainbow-coloured cloud amazed residents in Indonesia. Footage shows the vibrant weather phenomenon in neon red, blue, green, yellow, and violet behind dark clouds in the sky in Tidore city ...

A man in Yunnan, China, filmed stunning rainbow-colored clouds above Yulong Snow Mountain on April 28, 2025. The shimmering hues created a magical, fairy-tale-like atmosphere at an altitude of 4,680 ...

Unlike regular rainbows, which are caused by sunlight passing through raindrops falling in the sky, rainbow clouds require much more specific conditions described as cloud iridescence.