Marshall
msg:4415486 | 4:11 pm on Feb 8, 2012 (gmt 0) |
You can some times see this effect in a halo around the moon on chilly foggy nights as the sun's light reflects off the moon. But I have never seen one that appears in shape similar to a rainbow. Sounds like something you would see in a horror film.
Marshall
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rocker
msg:4415491 | 4:30 pm on Feb 8, 2012 (gmt 0) |
| As I got to the top of the fog line I saw a white rainbow - thought I was hallucinating! |
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I think there is a White Rabbit at the end of that rainbow :)
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rocknbil
msg:4415503 | 4:48 pm on Feb 8, 2012 (gmt 0) |
One of the few things I miss about Oregon is fishing one of my favorite lakes (not that I have time for it any more), just at first light, where I witnessed this [i1241.photobucket.com], a full fog rainbow.
More [s1241.photobucket.com]
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BeeDeeDubbleU
msg:4415511 | 4:59 pm on Feb 8, 2012 (gmt 0) |
That's it exactly Bill. ;)
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engine
msg:4415521 | 5:17 pm on Feb 8, 2012 (gmt 0) |
How lucky you are to have seen that.
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Marshall
msg:4415528 | 5:41 pm on Feb 8, 2012 (gmt 0) |
Amazing how the simple things in life can bring so much pleasure. And nice picture Bill.
Marshall
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BeeDeeDubbleU
msg:4415541 | 5:59 pm on Feb 8, 2012 (gmt 0) |
Unfortunately I had no camera with me. I took an image with my phone - not great but you can just about see it. It was much more distinct than this suggests but it was fading by the time I had got myself into a position to take the photo.
[s1059.photobucket.com...]
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londrum
msg:4415583 | 6:53 pm on Feb 8, 2012 (gmt 0) |
i always thought the rainbows were big circles in the sky, and you could only see a semi-circle bit of it... but apparently they do actually touch the ground. how mad is that? you can actually stand inside the spot where it touches the earth. i saw a photo of a bloke doing it in the paper
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phranque
msg:4415736 | 6:27 am on Feb 9, 2012 (gmt 0) |
next to a pot of gold, londrum?
i once saw a moonbow through the mist of lower yosemite falls.
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Automan Empire
msg:4415748 | 7:37 am on Feb 9, 2012 (gmt 0) |
Thanks for posting. I haven't seen one before, and didn't even expect such phenomena about the antisolar point. Now I want to see a solar glory and brocken spectre, too.
Also, I sense that someone on the internet is going to auto-tune this thread.
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rocknbil
msg:4415960 | 4:55 pm on Feb 9, 2012 (gmt 0) |
Actually that was the last day I took the boat out and it was absolutely amazing. A few months later I sold everything - literally, everything that wouldn't fit into a 24 foot moving van - including the boat and trailer, took a job in San Diego, and never looked back. Got my eye on a nice mountain lake here though, April is coming and still have the Fenwick graphite and a 3 person raft. :-)
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BeeDeeDubbleU
msg:4415977 | 5:27 pm on Feb 9, 2012 (gmt 0) |
You would like my son Bill. Fishing is all that interests him. He managed to get an invite the opening of the River Dee last week, which is a big affair in Scottish angling.
[riverdee.org.uk...]
But he has never seen a fog bow!
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HuskyPup
msg:4416016 | 7:01 pm on Feb 9, 2012 (gmt 0) |
This a common occurence where I live in the UK.
I see these on a regular basis on bright sunny mornings, occasionally in the evenings, where I live in the rural Lincolnshire Wolds especially in areas where I know where we have frost hollows, whilst out with my Husky or driving to early appointments.
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Kate_Oranum
msg:4416269 | 2:14 pm on Feb 10, 2012 (gmt 0) |
Never - ever, when I used to live in Scotland I actually saw a bunch of rainbows but never a white one - amazing!
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BeeDeeDubbleU
msg:4416271 | 2:30 pm on Feb 10, 2012 (gmt 0) |
| This a common occurence where I live in the UK. |
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Are you sure we are talking about the same thing? Last December the Daily Telegraph in Australia reported this as a "rare natural phenomenon". See [dailytelegraph.com.au...]
Edited: got my newspapers mixed up.
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