GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — It can stop you in your tracks if you spot it — a rare upside-down rainbow! This kind of rainbow formation is called a circumzenithal arc (CZA), and technically, it isn’t ...
Rainbows form when sunlight interacts with water droplets in the air. Light bends, splits into colors, reflects inside the ...
The formation of a rainbow requires the observer to be between the sun and falling rain, with the rain in front and the sun behind. Sunlight passes from behind the observer, refracts as it enters each ...