Showing posts with label sunbow. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sunbow. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Altostratus bow

Yesterday evening, October 10th, I saw this amazing arrangement of altostratus clouds with the sun peeking through and causing a sunbow on the right. What a delight the skies are.


A sunbow is a prismatic arc of colors resulting from the refraction of sunlight through water, or in this case, water vapor. You'll often see a sunbow in your garden sprinkler on a sunny afternoon. This sunbow was mostly yellow and blue and seemed to shoot through a hole in the clouds.