Rainbow?

  • o.m.f.t.
    Rochester Minn
    Posts: 339
    April 13, 2013 at 4:03 pm #1281743

    Seen this on pepin last summer. What does it mean when it curve’s up? Any body seen this before?

    Randy Wieland
    Lebanon. WI
    Posts: 13477
    April 13, 2013 at 4:08 pm #1162288

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    What does it mean when it curve’s up?


    That there is no way in heck that you will find the pot of gold in this frozen tundra!

    blue-fleck
    Dresbach, MN
    Posts: 7872
    April 13, 2013 at 4:09 pm #1162289

    Sundog. I’ve heard they’re a pretty good indicator that it will rain in the area within 24hrs when one is seen. That’s if you believe those wife’s tales.

    wimwuen
    LaCrosse, WI
    Posts: 1960
    April 13, 2013 at 4:10 pm #1162291

    Too many beers in the boat

    Jack Naylor
    Apple Valley, MN
    Posts: 5668
    April 13, 2013 at 4:11 pm #1162292

    it is similar to a sundog.
    the sun in certain conditions will refract at an angle through ice crystals or thin cloud covers and have the appearance of a rainbow, but it is really not a rainbow.

    when the sun in setting in the right conditions and is low to the horizon, you can have the same looking sundogs vertically one on each side.
    Jack

    BBKK
    IA
    Posts: 4033
    April 13, 2013 at 4:22 pm #1155469

    Quote:

    What does it mean when it curve’s up?

    20% of men curve up.

    Tom Sawvell
    Inactive
    Posts: 9559
    April 13, 2013 at 5:57 pm #1162304

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    Looks like God giving you a big smile.

    This is a great explaination.

    robby
    Quad Cities
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    April 13, 2013 at 6:15 pm #1162308

    Um….I think your camera was upside down.

    big_g
    Isle, MN
    Posts: 22456
    April 13, 2013 at 6:31 pm #1162313

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    Um….I think your camera was upside down.

    or the picture actually…No, this isn’t an upside-down rainbow, and the photographer hasn’t faked the picture. It’s an unusual phenomenon caused by sunlight shining through a thin, invisible screen of tiny ice crystals high in the sky and has nothing at all to do with the rain.

    robby
    Quad Cities
    Posts: 2823
    April 13, 2013 at 10:06 pm #1162333

    I was just being a smart Aleck. Neat pic.

    mossydan
    Cedar Rapids, Iowa
    Posts: 7727
    April 13, 2013 at 11:18 pm #1162348

    That was my first thought too Jack, even in the mid of summer its atleast zero at 15 to 20,000′. Flew in a small Cessna one time when I lived in Lacrosse, got up around 1,800′ and it was 65 degrees and 90 degrees on the ground.

    Michael Saal
    Merrill, Wi
    Posts: 641
    April 14, 2013 at 1:46 am #1161481

    I took some pictures of that same formation a few years ago while fishing the Rainbow Flowage. We were able to watch it for all most a half hour. It was pretty neat.

    suzuki
    Woodbury, Mn
    Posts: 18621
    April 14, 2013 at 1:58 pm #1162419

    Possibly a reflection off a Subaru?

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