rainbow Archives - @wxornotBG

Monday 11/24/14 at 7:07 AM by Tyler Smith

Rainbow Galore

Several photogenic rainbows were seen in Bowling Green this morning. I bet that made for a pleasant morning commute for a lot of people! Slight double rainbow in #BGKY @wxornotbg A photo posted by Jeff Baynham (@jeffbaynham) on Nov 11, 2014 at 5:39am PST So what forms a rainbow? – A rainbow is an optical phenomenon […]

Sunday 10/26/14 at 4:16 PM by Jacob Wilkins

Epic Rainbow + Lightning Strike = Amazing

I’m sure some of you may have read about the fifth order rainbow posted a few days ago. Now that rainbow was all cool and everything, but sometimes double rainbows are just as pretty. If you combine a video of a double rainbow and a lightning strike, the results are pretty freaking cool. Check out […]

Tuesday 10/21/14 at 5:17 PM by Jacob Wilkins

Fifth Order Rainbow

For the first time, a fifth order rainbow has been documented. No doubt everyone knows about the first and second order rainbows. Those are simply your primary and double rainbows that are fairly common around the world. In 2011, the third and fourth order rainbow was documented. However, we had to wait 3 years to […]

Tuesday 05/20/14 at 11:23 PM by Zack Leasor

WKU Storm Chase

The WKU Storm Chase class woke up near Kansas City Tuesday morning and headed west to SE Wyoming and NW Nebraska for the first “chase” day of the trip. By mid evening, we had caught up to a nice supercell in Goshen County, Wyoming. While this cell did not produce a tornado, it did exhibit nice […]