Double Rainbow In Dunedin: Did You See It?

Scattered afternoon showers brought on a colorful double surprise for those who looked to the sky on Sunday.

Dunedin Patch reader Wendy Hoffman shot this photo of the double rainbow that appeared over downtown Dunedin around 8:30 p.m. Hoffman said she was leaving the with a friend when she noticed.

Was the optical phenomenon — in all of its "vivid intensity and brightness" — enough to compel Hoffman and her friend to get as emotionally overwhelmed as Hungrybear, the double rainbow witness whose reaction went viral in January 2010? We're doubtful. But it did move her enough to share it with us here on Dunedin Patch!

So, as Hungrybear asked in his YouTube video, "what does it mean?"

At the very least, we know it means that the sun shined onto water droplets in the atmosphere above Dunedin on Sunday, which refracted the light (like a prism), causing the color spectrum to appear across the sky in an arc. A double rainbow happens when light is reflected twice inside the water droplets, according to the National Weather Service.

Did you see the double rainbow on Sunday?