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THIS evening at sunset there was here a fine instance of iridescent clouds. About 7 I drew the attention of my companion to some remarkable clouds; three long arms of stratus of peculiar texture, like pulled-out cotton-wool, and of striking colour, blue-black and silver, stretched nearly to where the sun had gone down behind a hill. At 5 minutes past 7 a detached portion of this cloud assumed lovely iridescent colours like bright mother-of-pearl. This gradually died away, hut other portions assumed the same tints. At 7.30 the tints vanished. Wind, south to south-west.
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GRENFELL, J. Iridescent Clouds. Nature 34, 3 (1886). https://doi.org/10.1038/034003c0
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