{"id":13664,"date":"2012-11-17T07:00:26","date_gmt":"2012-11-17T15:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/?p=13664"},"modified":"2012-11-26T17:37:31","modified_gmt":"2012-11-27T01:37:31","slug":"rainbow-of-the-double-kind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2012\/11\/17\/rainbow-of-the-double-kind\/","title":{"rendered":"Rainbow Of The Double Kind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saw the most incredibly bright and full double rainbow that I had ever seen in my life this morning. Because of the angle of the sun directly behind me and the small rain shower directly in front of me, it created perfect circumstances for a stunningly vibrant sighting.<\/p>\n<p>It started out as a long, three-quarter arc behind Mt. Soledad. But slowly, as the rain shower headed straight for me, the rainbow brightened, doubled, became an entire half-circle and moved in front of the mountain. And because the shower was moving very slowly, the rainbow lasted for about twenty minutes before the rain finally hit us and the colors faded into nothing.<\/p>\n<p>The rainbow was so huge that this image is actually eight overlapping vertical photos combined together.<\/p>\n<p>Except for the small bit on the right that is hiding behind the trees, I can honestly say that I have seen and captured the perfect rainbow.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Double-Rainbow-11-17-12-lo-res.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[13664]\"><img data-attachment-id=\"13665\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2012\/11\/17\/rainbow-of-the-double-kind\/double-rainbow-11-17-12-lo-res\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Double-Rainbow-11-17-12-lo-res.jpg?fit=1008%2C605&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1008,605\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;10&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D70&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1353139582&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;18&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0025&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Double Rainbow 11-17-12 lo-res\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Double-Rainbow-11-17-12-lo-res.jpg?fit=300%2C180&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Double-Rainbow-11-17-12-lo-res.jpg?fit=570%2C342&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13665\" title=\"Double Rainbow 11-17-12 lo-res\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Double-Rainbow-11-17-12-lo-res-300x180.jpg?resize=300%2C180\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Double-Rainbow-11-17-12-lo-res.jpg?resize=300%2C180&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Double-Rainbow-11-17-12-lo-res.jpg?w=1008&amp;ssl=1 1008w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saw the most incredibly bright and full double rainbow that I had ever seen in my life this morning. Because of the angle of the sun directly behind me and the small rain shower directly in front of me, it created perfect circumstances for a stunningly vibrant sighting. It started out as a long, three-quarter &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2012\/11\/17\/rainbow-of-the-double-kind\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[192],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1s2SN-3yo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5890,"url":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2011\/04\/08\/rainbow-connection\/","url_meta":{"origin":13664,"position":0},"title":"Rainbow Connection","date":"April 8, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Witnessed a spectacular rainbow (double, even) in Chula Vista after a rainstorm and with the sun slowly setting in the west.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Miscellaneous&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4017,"url":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2010\/12\/22\/double-rainbow-but-no-crying\/","url_meta":{"origin":13664,"position":1},"title":"Double Rainbow, But No Crying","date":"December 22, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Captured a spectacular full rainbow over San Diego after most of this record-breaking deluge of rains had passed to the east.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;San Diego&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11078,"url":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2012\/01\/20\/seaport-by-the-bay\/","url_meta":{"origin":13664,"position":2},"title":"Seaport By The Bay","date":"January 20, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"For my final weekday-long hometown tourist adventure I took my mom down to Seaport Village and the Embarcadero by the San Diego Bay to walk around a bit on yet another perfect, sunny, SoCal kind of a day. 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