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Stunning scenes have emerged from the Midwest lately, with rainbows, double rainbows, and even bolts of lightning framed by rainbows arching across the sky seemingly every evening.
A secondary rainbow, at a greater angle than the primary rainbow, is often visible. The term double rainbow is used when both the primary and secondary rainbows are visible. In theory, all rainbows are double rainbows, but since the secondary bow is always fainter than the primary, it may be too weak to spot in practice.
Cincinnati's Jan. 12 rainbow was about the highest rainbow you can ever see from Earth.
A rainbow is a narrow, multicoloured semicircular arc due to dispersion of white light by a multitude of drops of water, usually in the form of rain, when they are illuminated by sunlight. Hence, when conditions are right, a rainbow always appears in the section of sky directly opposite the Sun.
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 ...
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.
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]
A double rainbow stretched across the New York City skyline late Monday, marking the end of Sept. 11, 2023.