http://fallingwithstyle.freedomblogging.com/2009/06/14/rainbow-connection/577/ A blog by David Stevens, Editor Freedom Newspapers of New Mexico Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:37:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://fallingwithstyle.freedomblogging.com/2009/06/14/rainbow-connection/577/#comment-605 Kent McManigal Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:49:27 +0000 http://fallingwithstyle.freedomblogging.com/2009/06/14/rainbow-connection/577/#comment-605 I've seen this several times. It's not really "weird", it just isn't easily seen except when the sky is really bright as the rainbow forms. Even during dimmer rainbows, if you look hard enough you can usually see the second, inverted, rainbow outside the brighter one. The inversion of colors in the outer rainbow is due to the nature of light being refracted. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow I’ve seen this several times. It’s not really “weird”, it just isn’t easily seen except when the sky is really bright as the rainbow forms. Even during dimmer rainbows, if you look hard enough you can usually see the second, inverted, rainbow outside the brighter one. The inversion of colors in the outer rainbow is due to the nature of light being refracted. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow

]]> http://fallingwithstyle.freedomblogging.com/2009/06/14/rainbow-connection/577/#comment-603 Dianna Mon, 15 Jun 2009 07:16:27 +0000 http://fallingwithstyle.freedomblogging.com/2009/06/14/rainbow-connection/577/#comment-603 You should have whipped out your new camera phone! You should have whipped out your new camera phone!

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