Pages Tagged “rainbow”
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- Rainbow Cloud
A brilliant circumhorizon arc fragment seen above Los Angeles. I went to lunch at exactly the right time, and judging by Instagram, a lot of people saw it.
- Hanging around the beach after a Halloween storm
A few scenic photos from the aftermath of the season’s first rainstorm…and the aftermath of Halloween.
- Orange Sunset & Double Rainbow Over LA (Photos)
We’ve had a couple of storms run through Los Angeles over the past week. Last Friday, I went up to the top of a parking structure after work to look at the clouds, and stayed to watch a double rainbow and the play of light at sunset.
- Sun Shower
This afternoon I found myself entertaining the notion that Orange County, California had somehow switched places with Orange County, Florida. The weather was certainly more typical for Florida in July than California. It was 90 degrees and sunny when I left the office a little after 6:00 pm, though the eastern half of the sky […]
- Feathery Not-a-Rainbow Cloud
Always carry your camera. You never know when you’re going to spot something rare and fleeting, like a flattened “rainbow” in a cirrus cloud.
- Midday Thunderstorm & Rainbow
Going to lunch in a thunderstorm, plus a photo of the rainbow at the end…at (appropriately enough), the Irvine Spectrum.
- Glass Bow
The other day I was walking past a construction site in the Irvine Spectrum area, and noticed a rainbow-like ring appearing in the road. I immediately thought of this mystery photo on APOD and its (rather technical) explanation. Naturally, I had to take a picture myself. It basically is a rainbow, except formed by reflections […]
- Halos and Rainbows and Clouds, Oh My!
Whenever there’s a light layer of cirrus clouds in the sky, I keep an eye out for halos. I catch the occasional iridescent cloud, or a faint sundog that’s only visible through sunglasses. Today I spotted a 22° halo as I walked back to my car after lunch, around 2:00pm on March 6. It’s not […]
- Crimson Rainbow
Friday was the first rain we’d seen in over a month. By evening, the trailing edge of the storm was starting to cross central Orange County, and I actually drove back into the cloud cover to pick Katie up from work. We ended up stopping for dinner, and got back on the road around sunset. […]