Rainbow And Its Surprising Facts

A rainbow is a climatic phenomenon that is caused by reflection, refraction and dispersal of light in water droplets resulting in a chromatic spectrum of light turn out in the sky. It takes the form of a multicolored circular arc in the sky. Rainbows caused by sunlight always appear in the section of sky directly opposite the sun.
1. A rainbow is a polychromatic arc that forms in the Sky.
2. Rainbows can be seen not just in the rain but also in the mist, spray, fog, and dew.

3. When sky’s one part gets sunny and another gets rain that’s the time when rainbow raise in the sky.

4. There are seven colors formed in a rainbow and the colors are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet.
5. There is a short form of rainbow to remember its colors ROYGBIV or VIBGYOR.
6. A famous Scientist Isaac Newton discussed and explained about the fact that how a rainbow occurs.
7. A rainbow arch is a 42-degree angle starting from the direction opposite from the sun.
8. Moon bows rainbows occur when the moon’s light reflects through the raindrop.
9. A person standing next to you is standing in a completely different spot and sees the rainbow different it happens because they see different raindrops.
10. The rainbow will be higher in the sky when the Sun gets lower.
11. If we see a rainbow from height, such as on an airplane, you can see a rainbow in a complete circle on the other hand if we see a rainbow from ground level we only see it as a semi-circle rainbow.
12. After a Rainstorm we can usually see a primary rainbow.
13. Rainbow has no physical appearance so cannot touch it you can just see it.
14. We can’t see rainbows in the winter because in the winter raindrops freeze into snowflakes so fewer raindrops fall.
15. You see more rainbows in tropical locations and by waterfalls.

By – Tripti Varun

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