When sunlight hits a raindrop, the red light waves are bent at an angle of 42 degrees from their original direction from the sun. Shorter violet light waves are only bent at an angle of 40 degrees.

Since the colors don’t all refract at the same angle, we see them as separate layers. And because no two people can view that resulting rainbow from exactly the same angle, it’s going to look ...

I was just heading to my basketball league that I play in,” said resident Carter Roy. “The storms went by us, so it’s pretty ...