Janice Williams shared this photo she took after a torrential downpour on Wednesday, July 1, at 7 p.m., along Route 94 in Warwick at the entrance to Ochs Orchard.
Fifteen minutes later and 10 miles away, Terry Reilly stopped on Glenwood Road in Pine Island overlooking Blue Arrow Farm and found the end of the rainbow.
A double rainbow is considered a symbol of transformation and is a sign of good fortune in eastern cultures, according to www.coloma.com, a website for the community of Coloma, California. “The first arc represents the material world and the second arc signifies the spiritual realm. A double rainbow forms due to an optical illusion when sunlight enters a raindrop and creates two internal reflections before the rays exit the droplet.”