sundog

"The colors usually go from red closest to the sun, out to blue on the outside of the sundog," the NWS explained in a blog post.

A feast prepared by the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe capped a day in which even the clouds wore rainbows of sundogs.

After a week of wild conditions - featuring "weather bomb" gales and "thundersnow" - the Sun takes the opportunity to explain some of the more baffling meteorological terms, such as sundogs, haboobs and supercells.

A rainbow wrapped around the sun – a phenomenon called a sundog.

On either side of it, great, gasping sundogs struggled.