A ‘once in a lifetime’ photograph shows lightning striking a double rainbow.
On July 7, amid a rainstorm, 19-year-old Evie-Mae Parkinson captured the incredible shot. The photographer went outdoors to see the rain in Dereham, Norfolk and began photographing the rainbow. However, she later realized that she had captured a shot of the lightning hitting the rainbow.
The teen claimed she stood outdoors in awe of the double rainbow that was emerging.
As they developed from the gloomy clouds behind, Ms. Parkinson began to capture them on camera, but then lightning struck.
When sunlight reaches raindrops at an angle of 42 degrees or below, an optical illusion called a rainbow is created.
A phenomenon known as refraction separates incoming light rays into their colors as they strike raindrops. These colors have slightly varying wavelengths.
At large enough scales, its scattered shape is reflected to the observer, giving the impression of a colorful arch.
Due to the unpredictable nature of storms, which might bring rain in one direction and sunshine in another, they are ideal for creating rainbows.
A person has to be on the path of the sun and the rain to see a rainbow.
Although double rainbows do occur occasionally, the second arc is usually scarcely discernible as it reaches its end.
Even though it’s always 10 degrees higher and broader, the second, less intense rainbow always has the colors red at the bottom and violet at the top.
The Met Office states that this inverted appearance is caused by sunlight being reflected twice inside a raindrop.
Alexander of Aphrodisias, who initially reported it in 200 AD, is the name given to the black strip of sky that lies between two rainbows.
The sky seems darker because raindrops do not disperse sunlight between the two rainbow angles.
The raindrops between the primary and secondary rainbows’ deviation angles do not reflect light to the spectator, creating a black band in the sky.
