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Mountain Art Prints
Mountain Art Prints
It is not uncommon to see a rainbow behind or ahead of a rain storm, but have you ever seen a double rainbow? A ray of sunlight passes through a raindrop, reflecting off the back of the drop at varying angles. Along with this reflection is refraction of light that causes of a spectrum of colors red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. The Eastern Sierra is the remote east side of the Sierra Nevada region of California. The desert-like yearly rainfalls compete with small streams draining down from the snow-covered mountains to create a barren land with regions of verdant green. The Sierra Nevada lies in Central and Eastern California, with a very small but historically important spur extending into Nevada. The rain shadow of the Sierra causes the eastern slope to be warmer and drier: each life zone is higher in the east. It is rare and unlikely, but three or even four rainbows can be seen on occasion, but only if they are reflected off of the earthly objects. The best time to see a rainbow is in the early morning or late afternoon; when the sun is lower in the sky. When the sun is in a lower position, a higher bow can be seen. Many rain droplets of all different sizes, not just one, are responsible for this phenomenon. Perhaps billions of water droplets and sunlight reflections make a rainbow visible to the human eye. The gentler west-facing slope has been dissected by a series of streams, much longer than those of the eastern slope.
