Rare Pink Rainbow In Skies Over England Left People With All Kinds Of Feels, Netizens In Awe
England recently shared its excitement with the world when a pink rainbow graced its skies. Rainbows are a phenomenon that occurs due to refraction reflection and dispersion of light They usually can be seen if there is sunlight right after a rainshower and it appears in the direction opposite to that of the sun. But have you heard of a rainbow which is completely pink?
Rainbows are a rarity. And if you remember the Science lesson from school, you might recall that the rainbow is a phenomenon that occurs due to refraction, reflection and dispersion of light.
They usually can be seen if there is sunlight right after a rainshower, and it appears in the direction opposite to that of the sun.
A rainbow is made of seven colours that are visible to the naked eye, VIBGYOR (Violet, Indigo, Green, Yellow, Orange and Red). But have you heard of a rainbow which is completely pink?
England recently shared its excitement with the world when a pink rainbow graced its skies.
You might have witnessed the sky turning pink during a sunset, but that's not unusual. In fact, the sky at times turns different shades of red and orange because of the way sunlight refracts in the atmosphere.
When the sun is low in the sky, it has to cut through a thick slice of atmosphere. At these time shorter wavelengths of light like the blues, greens and the violets get scattered making the reds and oranges visible to naked eye.
PICTURES: Rare pink rainbow lights up the sky over Dorset https://t.co/gu3zhnvCKx pic.twitter.com/sv51tdv4nT
¡ª Bournemouth Echo (@Bournemouthecho) June 25, 2019
The light in the atmosphere is also scattered by water droplets, that is why we see rainbows.
What happened in England was this: there was absence of white light as the sky was flooded with pink light, when it passed through the water drops in the air. Instead of forming a full spectrum, the rainbow that formed was made of red, orange and pink hues.
Taste the *pink rainbow! ? https://t.co/AUWNG88AzD @BBCTwo pic.twitter.com/3kQ8P25GRl
¡ª BBC Earth (@BBCEarth) June 26, 2019
This rare phenomenon was spotted a couple of days ago in London and people took to the internet to express their awe and wonder after witnessing this.
A rainbow against a pink sky pic.twitter.com/dhS3vWiHGR
¡ª sarahpullan? (@pullan_sarah) June 24, 2019
But this is not the first time this phenomenon has occurred in England. Two years ago, in August 2017 Bristol, Weston-Super-Mare and Taunton witnessed the same phenomenon. The sky was filled with the red and pink lights and a pink rainbow was quite clearly visible.
there was a rainbow but the sky was pink/purple holy shit pic.twitter.com/FOV0Eke63c
¡ª CANA MOVED ACCS ! (@spideyshiro) August 7, 2017
Nature can be pleasantly surprising at times. There is no scientific term for ¡®pink rainbow¡¯. There are other quite rare natural phenomenona that you might not know of.
Fogbows are white rainbows and are formed because of fog instead of rain.
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Mammoth clouds are udder shaped clouds which are a rare sight, and they usually precede thunderstorms and tornadoes.
Lightening balls: only 5 per cent of the earth¡¯s population has ever witnessed this phenomenon. It is a ball of lightning and it lasts for more time in the sky than the usual lightning strike.
