Fun facts about rainbows

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‘Fun Rainbow Facts for Kids and Teachers

• Each raindrop makes its own rainbow! That’s right every water droplet makes its own rainbow, but it takes millions of raindrops for us to see a rainbow.

• A rainbow is actually a full circle. We only see one arch of a rainbow because on the ground we can only see the light reflecting off raindrops that appear above the horizon. Sometimes people traveling in airplanes or other aircraft can see the entire full-circle rainbow.

• A rainbow arch is a 42-degree angle starting from the direction opposite the sun.

• No two people see the same rainbow, why? A person standing next to you is standing in a slightly different spot than you, therefore, see the rainbow in a slightly different place. The rainbow may look the same but there a little different because the person next to you sees different raindrops.

• When the sun is lower the rainbow will be higher in the sky. When the sun is higher the rainbow will be lower in the sky.

• On the ground, we only see a semi-circle rainbow but from very high up such as on an airplane you can see a rainbow in a complete circle.

• Rainbows can occur in any season Winter, Spring, Summer, or Fall. How you ever noticed that you don’t see many rainbows in the winter in a cold climate. This is because in the winter raindrops freeze into snowflakes so fewer raindrops fall.

• You see more rainbows in tropical locations and by waterfalls.

• Earth is the only planet in the solar system where rainbows are possible. ’ (Source) 

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