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Prismatically coloured halos indicate the presence of watery vapour, whereas white ones show that the vapour is frozen.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir