RAINBOW SCARF CLOUDS
August produced sightings of not one, but two rare “rainbow scarf clouds”, one in Haikou City, China, and another over Hamilton, Virginia. Officially known as pileus clouds, scarf clouds are short-lived lensshaped clouds that form above a cumulus cloud as a result of strong updrafts. They usually appear just before the cumulus turns into a cumulonimbus storm cloud and so