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A fantastic day for rainbows on north coast


By Jim A Johnston

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Looking over the mouth of Farr Bay towards Glais Geo. Picture: Jim A Johnston
Looking over the mouth of Farr Bay towards Glais Geo. Picture: Jim A Johnston

Monday was a fantastic day for rainbows on the north coast as the air was almost saturated and, consequently, light showers occurred with great frequency.

These regularly produced ideal rainbow conditions with increasing brilliance as the sun, quickly moving towards its lowest angle for the year, dropped towards the horizon and projected all the colours into which light can be divided onto those curtains of water. This photo illustrates one of the fundamental rules of nature in relation to rainbows – the lower the sun, the higher the rainbow.

What you see is the left limb of an enormously high rainbow, most of which was obscured by intervening cloud. The other end of it was also visible at the same time as was as was the second, external, bow which normally accompanies rainbows, albeit as a fainter shadow.

The picture was taken around 3pm looking over the mouth of Farr Bay towards Glais Geo – the three stacks which mark the eastern side of the bay.


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