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Rare weather phenomenon ‘fogbow’ captured across UK leaving onlookers thrilled

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weather phenomenon knows as a fogbow has been captured in parts of the UK, leaving onlookers thrilled. A fogbow, also known as a white rainbow, forms like a traditional rainbow where sunlight interacts with water droplets.

However, unlike a typical rainbow where these droplets are raindrops, in a fogbow these droplets instead come from fog, mist or cloud.

The droplets are also between 10 and 1,000 times smaller, which leads to the light being diffracted in a different way and makes the fogbow appear without any colour.

The stunning occurrence was visible on Saturday in parts of Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex. BBC Weather forecaster Dan Holley said: "On Saturday, the low cloud and fog thinned along parts of our coast, allowing the sun to break.

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