By Elizabeth Hunter

A rare "flat rainbow " has been spotted on the UK coastline.

The rare phenomenon was spotted by Naomi Cars, from her home above the bay in Torquay, Devon.

She had seen several rainbows that day - but this one appeared to lay flat and low over the shoreline.

Naomi quickly snapped a picture of the scene, which shows the bright rainbow appearing several feet below the clouds.

"We're really lucky to have an amazing view from our home, and we see quite a lot of rainbows - but I've never seen one like that," she said.

"We'd had four or five rainbows that day, but they weren't full rainbows .

"This one was really low to the sea.

"It was really beautiful - it was really bright as well."

While rainbows normally form high in the sky due to sunlight's refraction thr

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