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From fire tornadoes to raining fish, bizarre weather phenomena from across the US

It’s certainly common to see the rain and the snow fall, depending on the seasons.

But the state of the atmosphere actually can cause strange climatic events.

Take a look at some bizarre weather occurrences that have happened or could happen in the U.S.

From fire tornados to “raining” fish and frogs, here’s a list of weird weather phenomena – plus some of the fascinating and numerical facts behind them.

Ghost rainbows, or fogbows, are only different from their colorful counterparts due to appearance.

The two ingredients to form a fogbow are still sunlight and water droplets.

“The sun needs to be at a low angle to the existing fog in the atmosphere,” said the Farmer’s Almanac, adding that the burning star can vary between 30 and 40 degrees in order for a fogbow to appear.

The weather occurrence is commonly spotted in the early mornings and late evenings, the Farmer’s Almanac continued.

“Hair ice” was first discovered in 1918 by a scientist named Alfred Wegener, as Fox News Digital previously reported.

This rare ice formation is believed to have some connection to a fungus found on dead wood.

Last March, Mathew Nichols, a nature photographer, documented hair ice at Washington’s Hoh Rainforest in Olympic National Park.

“Hair Ice is caused by a fungus that lives within the decaying wood, and this fungus ‘breathes’ or releases its spores through the night, pushing the moisture harnessed within the wood out of the wood’s pores, causing it to immediately freeze with contact of the below freezing temperatures,” Nichols told Fox News Weather.

The sun halo is often referred to as the 22-degree halo by scientists because of the size of the radius formed.

“Hair Ice is caused by a fungus that lives within the decaying wood, and this fungus ‘breathes’ or releases its spores through the night, pushing the moisture harnessed within the wood out of the wood’s pores, causing it to immediately freeze with contact of the below freezing temperatures,” Nichols told Fox News Weather.

“They bear this name because the radius of the circle around the sun or moon is approximately 22 degrees,” reported EarthSky, an Austin, Texas-based weather information site.

Sun halos are a sign of “high, thin cirrus clouds drifting 20,000 feet” in the sky.

The weather forecast after a halo appears, according to EarthSky, is “ring around the moon means rain soon.”

#Haboob photo from #DolanSprings earlier this evening from Joe DuArte! Dust moved through w/ ~40 mph winds. #azwx pic.twitter.com/z9nV3HdliC

Haboobs, derived from an Arabic word meaning wind or blow, are strong dust and sand storms that could form in the southwestern region of the U.S., the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said.

Haboobs can last from 10 to 30 minutes. On rare occasions, they can last even longer, according to the government agency.

The intense storm can create “winds of speeds up to 60 mph [and] can stir up dust and sand and create a blowing wall as high as 10,000 feet,” the NOAA wrote.

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