Rainbows, high desert, 15:09 and 16:36 PDT, 29 October
it's been a good day for sky phenomena...
i'm watching the third small thunderstorm of the afternoon roll by, punctuated by periods of sun, often simultaneously with the rain... i managed to grab this panorama, fleeting though it was... there's another smaller, fainter, half-rainbow out there right now that i might try getting a shot of if it intensifies...
ok, it DID intensify, only it dropped back to a quarter-rainbow... here's a halfway decent shot which, unfortunately doesn't really pick up the much fainter double bow to the left...
[UPDATE]
well, the FOURTH thunderstorm is just finishing up, and this one was a dilly... the lightning was intense and i could see it striking the ridge tops and at least one power pole transformer off in the distance... it came barreling out of the southwest and the heavy rain lasted nearly 15 minutes (that's a LONG time in this neck of the woods), and was accompanied by a little bit of pebble-sized hail... the electricity has been flickering off and on and just went out completely... the flashing and booming is heading off to the northeast now, to rattle somebody else's windows... i wish i would have set the camera out with the shutter open to see what i could have caught in the way of lightning strikes... oh, well... it's too dark for rainbows...
[UPDATE II]
while i was writing this post, lightning must have struck a power substation over the ridge because the power went out and was out for nearly two hours... a wee bit of excitement for a late october evening...
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i'm watching the third small thunderstorm of the afternoon roll by, punctuated by periods of sun, often simultaneously with the rain... i managed to grab this panorama, fleeting though it was... there's another smaller, fainter, half-rainbow out there right now that i might try getting a shot of if it intensifies...
ok, it DID intensify, only it dropped back to a quarter-rainbow... here's a halfway decent shot which, unfortunately doesn't really pick up the much fainter double bow to the left...
[UPDATE]
well, the FOURTH thunderstorm is just finishing up, and this one was a dilly... the lightning was intense and i could see it striking the ridge tops and at least one power pole transformer off in the distance... it came barreling out of the southwest and the heavy rain lasted nearly 15 minutes (that's a LONG time in this neck of the woods), and was accompanied by a little bit of pebble-sized hail... the electricity has been flickering off and on and just went out completely... the flashing and booming is heading off to the northeast now, to rattle somebody else's windows... i wish i would have set the camera out with the shutter open to see what i could have caught in the way of lightning strikes... oh, well... it's too dark for rainbows...
[UPDATE II]
while i was writing this post, lightning must have struck a power substation over the ridge because the power went out and was out for nearly two hours... a wee bit of excitement for a late october evening...
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posted by profmarcus at
10/29/2007
