Sunday, September 30, 2012

White Rainbow

Just a neat little science / nature snippet.

Although it is hard to see, I took pictures of the first white rainbow I have ever seen today.  I honestly never knew these existed until this year when Yahoo!News posted a few pictures of them.  Apparently, they are commonly seen way up north in the arctic areas where there is a lot of snowy haze in the air.

Here, the area had frost on the ground and the temperature was 43 degrees Fahrenheit and everything was pretty much engulfed in a large cloud.  I was walking the dog this morning when I noticed in the field to my left a faint white rainbow.  I tried to take the best pictures I could of it.  And no, it was not a cloud formation because it was always in the same relative angle in the sky between me and the sun no matter how far north or south I walked.

Sadly, I couldn't get the entire thing in one picture.  Here are my attempts at sharing the experience.  It was pretty cool.







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