Kiya Richardson, 16, took this picture within the Tehachapi Valley of a full rainbow throughout a break from our latest rains on December 30.
Rainbows can solely be seen when the solar is sort of behind you; you’ll be able to’t search for on the solar and see a rainbow. Additionally, the decrease the solar is within the sky, when the time is nearer to dawn and sundown, the upper a rainbow seems to be. When the climate is nearer to the center of the day, rainbows seem shorter and nearer to the bottom.
Nonetheless, the angle of its curvature or arc is at all times the identical: 42 levels. You will not discover a rainbow with a narrower or wider arc, you may simply see kind of of a rainbow arc relying on the time of day and the way excessive the solar is within the sky.
The Nuwä (Kawaiisu or Southern Paiute) individuals of the Tehachapi Mountains have used two completely different phrases for rainbow. The oldest phrase is uwarü poro-iik, which accurately interprets as “rain stick”. Essentially the most used phrase in latest instances is taza no’orü, and taza means “summer time”. The second half of the time period might consult with the curvature of the rainbow as if summer time carried it on its again, since “noo” is a verb which means “to hold on its again.”
Mark Twain is answerable for a well-known, if sadly pejorative, quote about rainbows. Twain lamented how science has made rainbows appear much less mystical and memorable, when he mentioned: “We now have not the awe for rainbows that the savage has, for we all know how it’s made. We now have misplaced as a lot as we’ve gained by meddling in that matter.”
However whenever you see a lovely, fleeting, unpredictable, and ephemeral rainbow, it is nonetheless a magical sight.
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