An Incredibly Rare Photo of a Quadruple Rainbow
New Yorker Amanda Curtis was waiting for a train in Long Island, New York, this past Tuesday when she spotted something incredibly rare: a quadruple rainbow in the sky. She quickly snapped and shared a photo of it online, where it became one of the most talked about images over the past couple of days.
Curtis says the shot is 100% real and was taken in open air, and experts believe her. Meteorologist Paul Neiman of NOAA’s Earth System Research Observatory writes that the photo “is an outstanding example of a primary and secondary rainbow (relatively common) occurring together with their reflected-light counterparts (quite rare).”
Fun fact: the first ever photo of a quadruple rainbow was published in a scientific paper back in 2011.
(via Amanda Curtis via Laughing Squid)
Image credits: Photograph by Amanda Curtis, co-founder of NineteenthAmendment.com, and used with permission