No words necessary

milkman · Apr 13, 2005

What can you say?

milkman · Apr 13, 2005

Does this mean there's 4 pots of gold?

PineRidge · Apr 13, 2005

No doubt a new advertising campaign underway by McDonald's. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Make mine to go!

DannyD · Apr 13, 2005

milkman, is that on your place? What a statement wherever it is.

how are you guys doin? If they keep having me work on vacation I am going to have to take the rest of this month off just so I dont loose days.

Cliff_Johns · Apr 14, 2005

That's quite a coincedence. I just saw a double rainbow a week ago and I don't remember ever seeing one before. Quite spactacular. Thanks for posting the photo.

Cliff

texbaylea · Apr 14, 2005

Good photos. Please notice that the order of the colors is reversed in the secondary rainbow. That is the physicist in me.

Vernon

JayC · Apr 14, 2005

Those are nice. Last year (June 13), a tornado touched down in the area. I stood outside watching it. /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif After the storm, the roads were still wet. A rainbow appeared. It was so bright it was reflecting off the road. It was beautiful. There was also a second rainbow, but it wasn't as bright as the first one.

sweettractors · Apr 14, 2005

Yours has got mine beat, But not by much /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif--Took this one couple days ago across from our business--Ken Sweet

milkman · Apr 14, 2005

One night about 10 yrs ago, I was coming across NM at the 284 MM, the moon was full and to the south of I40 and a it was raining to the north, there was a, I guess you'd call it, the most spectacular moon bow. Only one of those I've ever seen.

milkman · Apr 14, 2005

That's a good one Ken, nothing like that Ky grass and a rainbow for a background after a storm.

milkman · Apr 14, 2005

I hadn't noticed the color reversed, can you explain that?

Hypernix · Apr 14, 2005

Here's another one... At one time I swear there were 3 rainbows but I could get the camera in time to take a picutre!

Hypernix

Hypernix · Apr 14, 2005

Another shot here...

Hypernix

DmansPadge · Apr 17, 2005

Very cool pictures! What a sight!

TMcD_in_MI · Apr 17, 2005

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( I hadn't noticed the color reversed, can you explain that? )</font>

I don't want to jump in on texbaylea's answer to this, but it's been a few days, so I'll just offer this. To understand why the colors are reversed in the second rainbow, it helps a lot if you already know how the first rainbow is formed. It basically involves sunlight bending and bouncing inside raindrops, with each raindrop acting like a little prism.

This link is one of the best I have seen for explaining it all.

Hope this is OK.

Tom

texbaylea · Apr 22, 2005

Milkman

If you look at Tom McD's link, the front surface where the light rays exit the rain drop is also reflective like a "half-silvered mirror" so a portion is reflected back into the rain drop and further dispersed. A "second order" rainbow results when this portion of the light is reflected back and out. Multiple orders exist but are so dim as not to be seen. I have seen 1 or 2 photos that included third order rainbows and the color order is same as the first.

Vernon

riptides · Apr 4, 2006

With all the gloom and pending doom of parts of the farm house, someone upstairs reminds my family how lucky and blessed we are.

-Mike Z.

riptides · Apr 4, 2006

This is the left side of the same rainbow that the previous posting had down on the farm house.

I needed a wide-angle camera, as this was a complete rainbow. I don't think I ever saw one before yesterday. It was a blessed moment for us.

-Mike Z.