Lockhart, Texas ~ An image by Keith Minor. The rainbow formed by nearby rain is dwarfed by mighty cumulonimbus. Hail was also falling but hailstones cannot form a rainbow for they lack the optical perfection of small spherical rainbrops.   ©Keith Minor, shown with permission.


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