Saw a round rainbow today!

[HiredGoon]

This was weird.

About 12:30 just happened to be looking almost straight up at the numerous and puffy clouds and saw a huge "flat" rainbow circling the sun. At first I just saw part of it then moved to a more unobstructed view and saw that it was a full circle around the sun.

As I said there were lots of clouds...no rain at all though... there must have been water droplets in those clouds I guess for the rainbow to form.

It had not been raining at all before this nor after.

This was the first time I ever saw a circular rainbow like this.

Very cool! It was not very prominent and I doubt I could have gotten a decent pic with my older camera.

Anyone else see this today or any other time?

And no, I did not have any July 4th beers yet today

[ScaredOnce]

Are you eating Funyuns right now?

[Pector55]

I thought you could only see the full rainbow from a plane?

[HiredGoon]

I thought you could only see the full rainbow from a plane?

I don't know, man, but I was definitely on the ground!

Another person with me also saw it... again...very cool to see.

We'll swear on a stack of bibles that we saw it.

[Pector55]

I don't know, man, but I was definitely on the ground!

Another person with me also saw it... again...very cool to see.

We'll swear on a stack of bibles that we saw it.

Maybe you were just drunk and watching Jeff Gordon's car do laps on the big screen? ...or you were drunk and while you were throwing up in the toilet, someone flushed a pack of Skittles?

j/k, pretty cool man

I would say that it must be very rare to see such a thing. I just recall that in physics we learned about being able to see a full rainbow from an airplane.

[headcase]

Maybe you were just drunk and watching Jeff Gordon's car do laps on the big screen? ...or you were drunk and while you were throwing up in the toilet, someone flushed a pack of Skittles?

j/k, pretty cool man

I would say that it must be very rare to see such a thing. I just recall that in physics we learned about being able to see a full rainbow from an airplane.

Silly rabbit, it is all about the viewing angle compared to the direction of the light source and the medium the light is being filtered through....

[Dredly]

Silly rabbit, it is all about the viewing angle compared to the direction of the light source and the medium the light is being filtered through....

geesh EVERYONE knows that! duh

[HiredGoon]

geesh EVERYONE knows that! duh

Ha ha, yeah that makes sense. As I said it was about 12:30, so the sun was almost directly overhead, shining almost straight down thru these (water-droplet-filled (I assume) clouds.

Thanks, Headcase (and Dredly!) for the explanation and not re-enforcing the notion that I was bombed outta my freakin' head!!!

Ohhhhhh, the colors....the colors

[fingers80002]

All rainbows are circles.
I've seen pics taken from aircraft crews and the truly are round, you just usually don't see the whole thing.

[Pector55]

Ha ha, yeah that makes sense. As I said it was about 12:30, so the sun was almost directly overhead, shining almost straight down thru these (water-droplet-filled (I assume) clouds.

Thanks, Headcase (and Dredly!) for the explanation and not re-enforcing the notion that I was bombed outta my freakin' head!!!

Ohhhhhh, the colors....the colors

ROFL... just having fun with you. I'm part Irish and the first time I learned rainbows were circular I was furious. Imagine all my little leprechaun friends never getting to that pot of gold? ^#$&@# I was more angry than an Obama supporter searching for their free rent.