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N is for Not Enough Snow

This post is in honor of the letter “N” and part of Jenny Matlock’s Alphabet Thursday. For more nebulous “N” posts, please click here http://jennymatlock.blogspot.com/

Things are a little bare out here in the mountains. We don’t have anywhere near the usual amount of snow. Since most of our water comes from snow melt, it will be a dry summer. It’s still beautiful though!

Double Rainbow

This post is in honor of the letter “D” and part of Jenny Matlock’s Alphabet Thursday. For more delicious “D” posts, please click here http://jennymatlock.blogspot.com/

One morning last spring, I woke to this:

So I decided to try and find out what phenomena might cause such a beautiful gift…

Inquiring minds want to know…

Wikipedia (another beautiful gift) says:

In a so-called “primary rainbow” (the lowest, and also normally the brightest rainbow) the arc of a rainbow shows red on the outer (or upper) part of the arc, and violet on the inner section. This rainbow is caused by light being refracted then reflected once in droplets of water. In a double rainbow, a second arc may be seen above and outside the primary arc, and has the order of its colours reversed (red faces inward toward the other rainbow, in both rainbows). This second rainbow is caused by light reflecting twice inside water droplets. The region between a double rainbow is dark, and is known as “Alexander’s band” or “Alexander’s dark band”. The reason for this dark band is that, while light below the primary rainbow comes from droplet reflection, and light above the upper (secondary) rainbow also comes from droplet reflection, there is no mechanism for the region between a double rainbow to show any light reflected from water drops.

Cool, huh?

Morning Fog