rainbow

[redbird]

We had a really impressive rainbow, or maybe series of rainbows, outside our window early this evening: what I saw at first was an intense splash against gray cloudes near the ground in the southeast, and a fainter partial arc higher in the sky/toward the north. That was a bit hard to see because of the intense spots of sunlight reflecting off the glass-coated skyscrapers to our east. Then it faded, then I looked again a bit later and we had a full arch of rainbow, with a fainter, partial double rainbow. I watched for several minutes, and then (after it faded some) we went down to the supermarket, where I thought there might be a corner of rainbow through the window as we paid for our groceries.

We came back up here and put things away, and I looked east again, hoping: there was a gorgeous arc, now seeming a little further north, and fully above the skyscrapers to the east, which had blocked part of the first rainbow. So I looked out the window for a few more minutes.

I'm not sure if there are more rainbows here than in New York for meteorological reasons, or if I'm noticing them more for some reason. Maybe some of both: I am fairly sure I never saw that intense a rainbow out my window in Manhattan, nor one that lasted so long.

Comments

[wild_irises]

We saw some of that rainbow, driving from Wallingford to Laurelhurst, and then in Laurelhurst. It lasted a really long time!

I think Seattle has some meteorological stuff that especially encourages rainbows. I'll ask janeehawekins when next I see her (which will be after I see you today!).

[papersky.livejournal.com]

I saw more rainbows in the week I was in the west of Scotland in 2000 than in the rest of my life put together.

So they definitely cluster in places.

[kate-schaefer.livejournal.com]

I think we may have more rainbows because we're farther north, and therefore have a different angle of sunlight, but I'm just making a wild-ass guess here.