Sun and rain have combined to form some eye-catching rainbows across the region in recent weeks.
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Sunlight is actually made up of different colours 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 at a certain angle, the different colours that make up the beam separate so we can see them in the form of a rainbow.
What you may not know is that all rainbows are actually double rainbows.
A rainbow captured over Bonny Hills by Kimarie Meyers - click the photo to see a gallery from across the Hastings region
“If you look closely, any rainbow actually has a double, it is just the intensity that dictates if it is visible or not,” meteorologist Graeme Brittain explained.
