If you looked to the sky on Friday, you might have glimpsed a "fire rainbow".
Rachel Purcell sent this picture to the Herald after being lucky enough to see it while in the Viaduct on Auckland's waterfront.
"I was so pleased my camera captured the moment," she said.
MetService meteorologist Ciaran Doolin said the phenomenon was known as a circumhorizontal arc, or "ice halo".
He could not say how statistically frequent they were, but said the weather service occasionally got calls from the public about them.