Double rainbow lights up Vancouver skies
CTV
Those in Vancouver dreaming of a white Christmas might be disappointed to learn there’s no snow in store this season, but the weather gods did offer something else over the weekend as consolation.
Those in Vancouver dreaming of a white Christmas might be disappointed to learn there’s no snow in store this season, but the weather gods did offer something else over the weekend as consolation.
The day before the winter solstice – the shortest, and thus darkest, day of the year – the skies were unusually bright and filled with vivid colour as a stark set of rainbows appeared.
Social media users throughout the region were quick to post their prized shots online. Some images showed a detailed rainbow with another, less vivid rainbow beside it, while others had shots of just the one, wide arc.
"It was a rainy day, but the clouds broke at sunset, so I stepped out to enjoy it," said Laura Duhan-Kaplan, a Vancouver resident whose video of a thick, bright rainbow emerging from grey clouds garnered much attention online.
"When I turned the corner onto Main Street, I saw in the sky what looked like a painting of Ezekiel’s vision of heaven. A glowing rainbow, exceptionally wide and bright beaming out of glowing clouds," she said.
Duhan-Kaplan said she called her husband and her son to tell them to step outside, and look north. On Main Street, the colourful phenomenon was bringing strangers together in a way she hadn't seen before, she said.
"A random man at the bus stop said, 'Isn’t it amazing how these things happen? Just so, at special times.' And he told me a story important to him, from years ago," she said.
