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Nicholle Roberson
Papamoa beach, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand
11/09/2023
07:21 pm

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🌈🌈🌈 Capturing the Magic of a Rare Triple Rainbow in Papamoa Beach tonight! 📸

How rare is a triple rainbow?

Few people have ever claimed to see three rainbows arcing through the sky at once. In fact, scientific reports of these phenomena, called tertiary rainbows, were so rare -- only five in 250 years -- that until now many scientists believed sightings were as fanciful as Leprechaun's gold at a rainbow's end. These legendary optical rarities, caused by three reflections of each light ray within a raindrop, have finally been confirmed, thanks to photographic perseverance and a new meteorological model that provides the scientific underpinnings to find them. - sciencedaily.com