Is there always a rainbow after a storm?
No there is not always a Rainbow after a storm. You need for the Sun to come out and to be at a low angle in the sky so it can hit the moisture in the atmosphere. Many times it stays cloudy after a storm or many storms happen at nighttime.
Why did God use a rainbow as a sign of the covenant with Noah?
The first Biblical reference to a rainbow is in the account of the covenant God made with Noah and his offspring after the Flood survivors came out of the ark. (Ge 9:8-17; Isa 54:9, 10) This splendid sight of itself would have been reassuring and an indication of peace to Noah and his family. Many opinions have been offered as to whether this was the first time humans saw a rainbow. Some commentators have held that rainbows had been seen before and that God’s ‘giving’ the rainbow at this time was really a ‘giving’ of special meaning or significance to a previously existing phenomenon. Many of those holding this view believe that the Flood was only local or did not substantially change the atmosphere. Nevertheless, this is the first mention of a rainbow, and if a rainbow had been seen earlier, there would have been no real force in God’s making it an outstanding sign of his covenant. It would have been commonplace, and not a significant marker of a change, of something new. The glory, beauty, and peacefulness of a rainbow that appears after a storm are drawn upon in Biblical descriptions of God and his throne. In Ezekiel’s vision of God, the prophet saw “something like the appearance of the bow that occurs in a cloud mass on the day of a pouring rain.” This emphasized “the glory of Jehovah.” (Eze 1:28) Similarly, John saw Jehovah’s throne of splendor, and ‘round about it there was a rainbow like an emerald in appearance.’ The restful emerald-green color of the rainbow would have suggested composure and serenity to John, and appropriately so since Jehovah is the master of every situation, a glorious Ruler. (Re 4:3) John also saw an angel with ‘a rainbow upon his head’ (Re 10:1), which may suggest that he was a special representative of “the God of peace.”—Php 4:9.
Why does a rainbow form when it rains along with sunlight?
In a water droplet, the light of the sun is scattered into its different frequencies. In order to see it, you need the sun behind you and the droplets in front of you.The center of the rainbow is the shadow of your head on the ground. When you move, the rainbow will move with you so, don’t try to find the treasure at the end of the rainbow! ;-) When I fly my little aircraft, I sometime see a rainbow on a cloud, as a circle around the shadow of my plane. But, when on the ground, half of that circle disappear on the ground you stand on.In the droplets of water, the light is reflected directly, forming the first rainbow but, some of the energy is reflected, a second time, on the other surface of the droplets. That forms a second rainbow outside the first one. It is much weaker because made of less energy and you see it only when the rainbow is seen with a dark cloudy background.Here is an example of a double rainbow. Notice that the sequence of colours is inverted in the second one..
Does a rainbow form every time it rains during sunlight?
Stand 3 feet in front of a mirror, but also 1 foot to the right of its right edge. You can’t see your reflection, but a friend standing 3 feet to your left could. If there is nobody standing there, does the image “form?”It’s pretty much the same question. A rainbow is really a distorted reflection of the sun, in raindrops. It’s 40° to 42° degrees wide, depending on color, and much brighter in the outermost 0.5°. Since each color is brightest at a different angle, we see colored bands (and believe it or not, white inside the colored bands). If anybody is standing in a position where there is a 40° to 42° angle between the suns rays, and your line-of-sight, reaching some falling raindrops, that person will see a rainbow. If nobody is there, the light phenomenon still occurs.
Why aren't rainbows seen after every rain?
Basically you have to have the sun come out while it's raining, or a waterfall/hose...anything that puts a sufficient amount of water droplets in the air. It can be raining either where you are at, or in a near by location. The sun also has to be at a low enough angle (morning/afternoon) in the sky. You may notice that, say, after a late afternoon rain shower when the sun comes out, you'll see the rainbow toward the opposite horizon as to where the sun is (the sun will be at your back while looking at the rainbow). Rainbows happen when sunlight (which consists of the whole spectrum of visible light i.e. all the colors that you eventually see separated out in the form of the rainbow) passes through the water droplets of rain and is refracted, and reflected, as it passes through the surface of the waterdroplet; and since different wavelengths of light get refracted/reflected at different angles you get a rainbow as a result. Also the bending of the different colors results in the red end of the color specturm to fall on the outer part of the rainbow and the violets/blues to fall on the inside of the rainbow.
CHRISTIANS -- Was the rainbow mentioned in Genesis 9:12-16 the first rainbow to ever exist?
It must have been the first rain bow since it had not rained before. God set this bow in the clouds which now formed after the cataclysm of the flood. It would appear that the earth was enclosed by a kind of bubble of water that acted somewhat like a greenhouse in unifying the climate and increasing the pressure. This supported a different kind of life to that which we now know. The earth was all in one place and the sea the remainder. It may be that the conditions permitted of no bow through the diffusion of the sunlight through this water barrier. Perhaps the earth was also flat or relatively flat without dramatic variations with no waterfalls and therefore no bows through the miasma? This "bubble" had burst and together with the waters which broke out from the deep, caused the flood, submerging the world. The mighty forces released caused gigantic upheavals resulting in the breaking up and formation of various land masses, continents and islands, with all the mountain ranges and canyons and various physical features that we know today, including the extremes of climate. Surely the earth must have tottered during that cataclysmic change? No room there for uniform development. The earth emerged completely different. Such evidences the wrath of God against sin for which reason He brought the flood. Yet His mercy is shown through grace both through the supernatural preservation of Noah and in the sign set in the clouds for all to behold as a reminder both of judgement and of mercy. Yet for all this man is returning to how he was before the flood.
How far away is the rainbow?
PLZ READ ALL BEFORE U THUMBS UP OR DOWN. The birth of each rainbow begins with millions of tiny rain droplets. The rain droplets serve as a type of reflector of light. White light enters one individual rain droplet and exits as one specific color of the spectrum. Without millions of rain droplets, a rainbow would not occur. If you only had a few rain droplets you would only see a few colors. This is typically why rainbow appear after a rain storm. Each rain droplet has a function in the formation of the rainbow. Sunlight enters the rain droplet at a specific angle and the rain droplet separates the white light into many different colors. This angle is a fixed measurement between your eye and the sun. What color is refracted depends upon the critical angle,which is the angle the sunlight strikes the back of the rain droplet. Red light bends the least, exiting the rain droplet at a 42 degree angle, while Violet light bends the most, exiting the rain droplet at a 40 degree angle. All of the other colors of the rainbow exit the rain droplets at some angle between 40 and 42 degrees, thus making up the colors of the rainbow ROYGBIV, this order never changes. Each rain droplet reflects all colors at a given point and time, but only one color comes back to your eye, requiring million of rain droplets to create a rainbow. As the rain droplets fall through the sky, the colors of the spectrum being reflected and refracted are constantly changing.light from the sun is know as 'white light'. it is made up of all of the colors seen in the rainbow. when it rains, the light is split up into these different colors in the same way it would if you passed light through a glass prism. Therefore light splits up into its individual colors when it rains, and this is what a rainbow is. the rainbow, it is 93,000,000 miles behind us. We cant touch the rainbow because it is just a refelction.
Meteorology: Can a rainbow form with snow as opposed to rain?
Yes, snow absolutely can form a rainbow, but since the snow crystals are of a lot more complicated shape compared to a rainbow, you can get all sorts of interesting effects.This picture is of a ‘parhelion’, where the snow is falling between the vantage point in the picture and the sun.Here is another example, which looks a bit more like a traditional rainbow, but was indeed formed with snow crystals:Since rain itself isn’t involved, there are other names for this phenomenon, such as ice bows, sun dogs, halos, arcs, and the aforementioned parhelion.
Why do we always see rainbows before and after a rain?
A rainbow is a meteorological phenomenon that is caused by reflection, refraction and dispersion of light in water droplets resulting in a spectrum of light appearing in the sky. It takes the form of a multicoloured circular arc. Rainbows caused by sunlight always appear in the section of sky directly opposite the sun.Rainbow - Wikipedia
Is it true that the rainbow can come only after the rain?
Rainbows happen when sunlight and rain combine in a very specific way. The beams of sunlight separate into the colors we see in the rainbow as they enter a raindrop. Sunlight is actually made up of different colors that we don’t usually see. When a beam of sunlight comes down to Earth, the light is white. But, if the light beam happens to hit raindrops on the way down at a certain angle, the different colors that make up the beam separate so that we can see them — in the form of a rainbow.The angle for each color of a rainbow is different, because the colors slow down at different speeds when they enter the raindrop. The light exits the raindrop in one color, depending on the angle it came in, so we see only one color coming from each raindrop. Light at different angles coming through many raindrops form the rainbow that we see, in stripes of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet.