The emailer went on to say:
I was in North Pole Alaska (near Fairbanks) on July 5, 2011 and saw this unusual rainbow. It was wavy and had spaces of no color between large sections. I wondered what caused this phenomena?
I saw the rainbow with my eyes, it was so unusual that made me decide to take the pictures.
So my question to alert APOD readers is: Is this just a typical rainbow, or is something unusual going on here? Your thoughts would be appreciated!This was about 7 PM on July 5th. There was no rain. It was a very warm day. The Sun was at my back (yet still overhead as we were so far north, I think they said we were 500 miles south of the north pole). We were facing southeast, I believe. The portions of the rainbow were apart when we first looked, then came together.
- RJN