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Because of this, rainbows are usually seen in the western sky during the morning and in the eastern sky during the early evening. The most spectacular rainbow displays happen when half the sky is still dark with raining clouds and the observer is at a spot with clear sky in the direction of the Sun. The result is a luminous rainbow that ...
Double Rainbow was a viral video filmed by Paul "Bear" Vasquez (September 5, 1962 [1] – May 9, 2020). [2] The clip, filmed in 2010 in his front yard just outside Yosemite National Park in California, shows his ecstatic reaction to a double rainbow. As of February 2025, Vasquez's video had accumulated more than 51 million views on YouTube. [3]
In secondary rainbows, that order is reversed with violet coming first from top to bottom. A secondary rainbow is much fainter than a primary one because the intensity of light is reduced.
In the Anglo-Cornish dialect of Cornwall, United Kingdom, sun dogs are known as weather dogs (described as "a short segment of a rainbow seen on the horizon, foreshowing foul weather"). It is also known as a lagas in the sky which comes from the Cornish language term for the sun dog lagas awel meaning 'weather's eye' ( lagas , 'eye' and awel ...
Cincinnati's Jan. 12 rainbow was about the highest rainbow you can ever see from Earth.
Here's a breakdown of how and why it all happens. But the science behind a blue sky isn't that easy. For starters, it involves something called the Rayleigh effect, or Rayleigh scattering.
These result from a combination of internal reflection and dispersive refraction of light in raindrops. Because rainbows are seen on the opposite side of the sky from the Sun, rainbows are more visible the closer the Sun is to the horizon. For example, if the Sun is overhead, any possible rainbow appears near an observer's feet, making it hard ...
A double rainbow stretched across the New York City skyline late Monday, marking the end of Sept. 11, 2023.