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Luba · 05-21-2006, 07:34 PM

Just ask Dwoing and Duke how I feel about seeing a rainbow

According to Dave Dombek
Expert Senior Meteriologist
AccuWeather.com

Rainbows occur when light passes through water droplets and is refracted or bent. This results in a rainbow, which contains all of the colors of the spectrum. A rainbow from a hose, sprinker is formed the same way as a rainbow in the sky. Rainbows usually occur toward the end of a rain even (shower, thunderstorm, or steady rain). They sometimes occur when it is still raining, sometimes occur when the rain has already stopped. The key to getting a rainbow to form is having the sky clear in order to allow the sun to shine on the raindrops. Also the has to sun has to be low enough in the sky for this to happen. That is why you will almost never see a rainbow during the middle of the day, particularly from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The sun is too high in the sky then, at least in the spring and summer. Most of the rainbows occur in the late afternoon or evening, when the sun is in the western part of the sky. Once in a while you will see a rainbow form in the morning in the east, and it shines on raindrops to the west.

05-21-2006, 07:34 PM	#1 (permalink)
Luba Moderator Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 12,781	Rainbows Just ask Dwoing and Duke how I feel about seeing a rainbow According to Dave Dombek Expert Senior Meteriologist AccuWeather.com Rainbows occur when light passes through water droplets and is refracted or bent. This results in a rainbow, which contains all of the colors of the spectrum. A rainbow from a hose, sprinker is formed the same way as a rainbow in the sky. Rainbows usually occur toward the end of a rain even (shower, thunderstorm, or steady rain). They sometimes occur when it is still raining, sometimes occur when the rain has already stopped. The key to getting a rainbow to form is having the sky clear in order to allow the sun to shine on the raindrops. Also the has to sun has to be low enough in the sky for this to happen. That is why you will almost never see a rainbow during the middle of the day, particularly from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The sun is too high in the sky then, at least in the spring and summer. Most of the rainbows occur in the late afternoon or evening, when the sun is in the western part of the sky. Once in a while you will see a rainbow form in the morning in the east, and it shines on raindrops to the west.