beautifully special

This was taken yesterday but I think it's very special so I'm posting it today. I noticed beautiful colours in the clouds as I was hanging out the washing, like a mixed up rainbow. I only had time to take 4 pics as the clouds were moving and none of them do it justice. On the internet it's called a solar optics rainbow cloud (or iridescent cloud). They're fairly rare and are caused by the presence of tiny ice crystals in the air which cause the light to be diffracted.
About 3 hours later we had a hailstorm.

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