White rainbow appears in Scotland

White rainbow - an extremely rare meteorological phenomenon appeared in the town of Dumfries, west Scotland last weekend.

A rare white rainbow appears in Scotland

Richard Tulson, 53, a local resident while walking his dog, accidentally recorded the beautiful milky white rainbow across the sky.

"When I saw the white rainbow, I noticed a thick fog covering the valley. But I could not observe much, I quickly took out the camera," Metro quoted Tulson. The photo was quickly spread and fevered online.

White rainbow, an extremely rare phenomenon occurred in Scotland last weekend.(Photo: Richard Toulson).

According to scientists, white rainbows are a rainbow-like phenomenon, often created from sunlight and extremely small water droplets, with a diameter less than 0.05mm.

Because it is so small, these droplets cannot refract light, creating a multicolored effect like rainwater. However, they cause diffraction (bending and spreading light waves), which makes the rainbow eyes appear white.

This is an extremely rare phenomenon that happened in the Arctic and the mountains of Ukraine many years ago. In this case, it is most likely created by too small and transparent fog particles of the mountains of Dumfries, Scotland.