Nature's Best Tricks of Light Explained
Вставка
- Опубліковано 3 гру 2024
- How do rainbows form? What exactly are mirages? Explore nature's most fantastic tricks of light with simple scientific explanations of how the brilliant colors come alive. In this video we also showcase and explain halos, pillars, mirages, crepuscular rays, glories, iridescence and other funny ways the spectra of light appear on our spectacular planet.
SUPPORT THIS CHANNEL
/ pecoshank
To license video contact hankschyma@gmail.com
COPYRIGHT PECOS HANK 2023
NOT FOR REBROADCAST
HOW DO RAINBOWS FORM
When visible sunlight enters a raindrop it REFRACTS, separating into many different wavelengths. Each different wavelength appears as a different color. Some of that light is then REFLECTED off the back of the raindrop,
refracts again and then travels to observers appearing as the bowing spectrum. All rainbows are optical illusions. They do not exist in specific spot in the sky, rather in your head. You cant see a rainbow at midday unless you’re high above the horizon looking down. The closer to sunrise or sunset, the higher the rainbows arc into the sky
THE SECONDARY RAINBOW
The secondary rainbow appears when the light reflected twice inside the raindrop is bright enough for detection. Because this light is reflected twice, the order of the colors are reversed. The band of darker sky between the two rainbows is sometimes called “Alexander’s dark band.”
HIGHER ORDER BOWS
In rare conditions a third rainbow can be seen but its extremely faint and you’d have the sun in your eyes.
SUPERNUMERARY ARC / BOWS
Sometimes rays bouncing around in the rain cause interference. The result can be bonus bands of color usually underneath the primary bow. These are called Supernumerary arcs or bows.
MONOCHROME RAINBOW or RED RAINBOW
The farther sunlight travels through our atmosphere,
the more the shorter blue and violet wavelengths are scattered,
becoming less visible. When only the long-wave red remains visible. A monochrome rainbow or red rainbow may appear. Anywhere you have sunlight interacting with water droplets and an observer in the right spot,
you can have some kind of bow.
FOG BOW or WHITE BOW
The tiniest water droplets in fog tend to make a white bow or fog bow
Also called a mist bow or a ghost bow.
GLORY
Small rings of color most often seen around an airplane’s shadow is called a glory. These are most often visible when the viewer is above the horizon looking down. The closer your position to the clouds, the larger the shadow. In special conditions a hiker climbing through fog pondering the meaning of life may see a glory around their head and believe they’re on to something. This is sometimes called Brocken spectre or specter of Brocken. Because glories are optical phenomenon, only the observer's own shadow will have the crown of color, but their buddies will only see the glory around their own head.
more soon...
“Here’s a rainbow with some lady eating a sprinkled donut” 😭 classic pecos hank humor. Love it.
lol i was gonna say that
I've been keeping up with this channel for years now, and I can confidently say that there are no other videos that keep me as calm, content, and interested as these. It's a perfect blend of educational content, relaxing pace, and awe-inspiring videography. I myself have taken an intense fascination with meteorology because of what I see here. I truly appreciate what you do, and I want to thank you for sharing your passion with us!
Don't forget snake wrangling!
I'd like to add: Without the attention for sound and music, these videos would miss something. The commentary is also well-timed, and the humor is never far away.
This channel is indeed a blessing.
You know it's gonna be a good weekend when Hank posts a video right as it's about to begin!
I agree with that
Hank's the best!
Thank you Pecos Hank. Lovely presentation.
I’m thinking about being a meteorologist when I’m older, and your videos are always so informative and interesting. Thanks Hank!
Good luck Wave Maker.
Why wait until you're older? Why not be a meteorologist right now?
@@ForumArcadeprobably too young to become an actual certified meteorologist like me.
In the UK the rainbow order is remembered as;
Richard Of York Gained Battles In Vain
👑🇬🇧🌈
@EstyCabigon 15. 😊
As a survivor of Hurricane Helene in Swannanoa, NC.. this brought me some light. Thanks Hank
Praying for you RenderMan ❤
Mission accomplished. Glad you're hanging in there RenderMan.
this Hurricane Season has been quite unusual especially with the Tornado Outbreak that came from Milton which was unusual for a Tropical Cyclone to spawn large Wedge Tornadoes that Milton had spawned in Central Florida
@@aprilbrooks9068 Florida man here, I believe the bigger 'nadoes all happened pretty far south, and not in the central region, but we still got a couple here. All in all Milton, on hurricane damage alone, not including the tornadoes, was underwhelming where I was (people were saying we were gonna have feet upon feet of flooding even here in the sand hills north of Orlando, which never happened), and even the storm surge around Tampa was far less than expected because it weakened so quickly right before landfall.
But you are right about this season being weird. We were seeing developments even into the double digits of November iirc, but I guess the shift to La Nina does that.
I want to say Hank that because of you i no longer have a deathly fear of tornadoes your calm approach to it really helped me out of a long time fear
A little fear is probably healthy. Way to go!
I have a healthy respect for the power of Mother Nature and try not to be foolish when dealing with it. Thanks to my parents being calm while taking appropriate precautions, I, too, can stay calm in many scary situations. Not just when it comes to weather.
Tornadoes are a lot like trains, and not just because the sounds of the two get compared to each other!
They're fascinating things, but if you get too close to one, it can really hurt. Both should be treated with a very cautious respect, and should be admired from a safe distance.
Just want to say you are awesome. I always find your content so interesting, intellectually stimulating, and the imagery is gorgeous. Thank you for doing what you do and sharing it with the world!
Thank you Hank, you definitely brought light!
Thank you for your videos. Recent events hit me hard. Your eye for beauty and wonderment always lift my spirits. Again, thank you.
You're not alone Schlub. There's still beauty in nature.
So entertaining you don't realize you're learning stuff. Loved it! Ever see a green flash at sunset?
I've still never seem a green flash. Give me another few years ;)
@@PecosHank A couple of years back I saw one standing watching the sunset over a lake in Wisconsin - I thought I imagined it until I mentioned it to a friend and they said it was a thing that is possible.
@@PecosHank There's a wonderful dreamy french movie called "Le Rayon Vert" in which you can see one
Hey Hank, I've been watching you for since i was 7... Im 15 now. Just want to say thank you for giving me cool storm videos to watch
I've been watching him since I was 6 I'm 19 now lol
Hey Hank! I love your videos man! Going through a hard time and this is the light of my day so far! Stay safe!
You're not alone friend. Hope this brings you some light.
@@PecosHank preach
@@PecosHank Amen brotha
@@PecosHank you provided some much needed positivity and beauty Hank. Always love to see anything you have for us. Seems that many of us have hit some hard times and in low places and this truly helped. You are a good man.
@@TryHardNoodlez you aren’t alone. Know that you have people out there thinking of you and sending positivity your way.
🕯️ You're a light in the night, Hank! Thank you!
Good to see something positive and uplifting today Hank. Thank you.
Hanks new videos immediately put a smile on my face
I almost spat out my coffee in a good way at, "What's Roy's middle name? It's Gay." 🤣 You always make my day when you upload.
I nearly choked on my dinner I started laughing so hard!
In electronics the colors are expanded 0 to 9 so numbers can be colored bands on parts. Bad Boys (black 0 then 1 brown) , Rape Our Young Girls But Violet Gives (grey) Willingly (white)
@@echodelta9 That is... one acronym for it. Not what I was expecting in a Pecos Hank comment section but here we are.
Hey hank, I’m a meteorology student in university and we just finished a unit on Rayleigh, geometric, and mie scattering while studying the different bands of the GOES satellites! The timing is too perfect :)
I’m about to start a case study on a tornado that hit Kansas this past year in March. Your videos are so helpful when applying the knowledge we are discussing!
Awesome Celeb! I started going down the Rayleigh route, but decided to keep this script moving fast. Good luck at University.
I love your content. Thank you, especially this week. 🌈
Thank you, it worked,
Hank !!! Awesome to see you. I love learning from your videos and so enjoy the beauty that is your work. Happy trails to you and your wife ❤ that was truly amazing!! Many of these I have never seen. Thank you so much !!
Anytime I see a rainbow I'm likely to burst out in laughter now. Roy G. Biv. Hilarious. Thanks for sharing the amazing beautiful images.
Thank you Hank. I needed this right now. ❤🧡💛💚💙💜
This was needed. Thank you
Hank you made my day.
Let's go everyone...class is in session again with Professor Pecos Hank presiding
I never knew that rainbows were a perception of the eye and that they don’t actually exist as physical things in the sky. You learn something new every day!
Flat earthers are going to _love_ this video.
I Was Looking For This Comment.
Life Is What You Make It.
The Key To ALL OF THIS
"FREQUENCY" & Sound Creates ALL.
I Believe The Top Storm Chasers Know Hidden Information As I Do. Personally... Knowledge Is Power...A Competitive Mindset Will Gatekeep This Information Which Is Starting To Get Known. 🎉🎉
Great New Video Hank ! Love it !
Btw there's also a very rare Phenomon called Moonbow. When Rain is shined on by Moonlight like the Sun would do. Looks amazing. Your Friend Daniel took a Moonbow on the last Chase he has uploaded this somewhere in Twitter and Flikr Gallery.
Also Peace to you and Family , you and all others facing Dark though are not alone there a lot people who care outside the USA.
Yeah, there are a lot of bows I haven't captured yet. We'll nail it in the sequel. Thanks for hanging around.
Always enjoy seeing a Pecos Hank up load. Learning more each time I see one. Hope you have good luck in the future and waiting to mors Tornado videos. Thank you Sir, and be careful and hope you have many safe miles in your travel! Happy Trails!
I love your videos so much!
I couldn’t click fast enough. Just some of the most beautiful photography and cinematography.
Hold the dinner - Hank just posted! The only videos I don't want to end while I'm watching them - why this guy hasn't been picked up by mainstream is beyond me. Love the brother's mic in the water 🤣
Seriously Hank, you have blown my mind with this!! Thank you ☺️
Wow, Hank. So inspiring and positive. You don't know how much your videos mean to me. They don't bring me a little light, they're more like a big sunrise in the summer. Keep up the good work. Best wishes from foggy, cold Germany.
This s got to be one of my favorite videos. Omg I did not see that microphone. And still I love every single second of your creation. Thank you for the light ✨❤️
That was a great video, Pecos Hank! I loved it.
This video it's just beautiful.
How this isn't on mainstream television I'll never know.
It is after all mainstream excuses.
Rainbows reside where you see them and can be mapped, APM Research - Operation Rainbow Warrior
Always right here when your vids drop! Thanks, Hank.
Love you, Hank. You're exactly the light my family needed right now ❤
I love you Pecos Hank your my inspiration
U know its a great day if Hank dropps a vid
1:43 lmao😳
Hank, you are the best. Thank you.
I've never said this in my 39 years. But that's a beautiful snake!
Thanks for making such incredible high quality videos in this sea of clickbait 6:50 "compulation" slop. Your nature footage is some of the best out there!
Hank, you've only ever gotten better. What a beautiful, clear presentation. Thank you for all your hard work!
You have such an eye for beauty and a heart of gold, you explain things so well! Love that you even caught the comet too!!!
Thank you Hank. Needed a nice video this week.
It always amazes!
Awesome Hank Drop
Awesome video Hank!
The best photographers understand light. You prove that in every one of your videos. Fascinating.
Another fantastic video Pecos Hank. Very educational and well done.
immidiatly clicked
immidiatly?
Yep
Immidiatly like !
Eye immedisuaely clocked
Y Im'idiot'ly clunked
i love love LOVE light phenomena, especially rainbows, halos, and sundogs!! I'm 27 but still run outside or to the window to see rainbows with childlike joy 😊One of my autistic special interests since being a kid has been weather, and in a different universe i would've studied meteorology - but your videos are a wonderful placeholder for such! I love the content as usual, thanks for all you do Hank ❤
Really amazing colours ❤
Thank you for the cool edutainment Hank 😃
HOWDI Pecos, all the way from the UK 🇬🇧
Cheers Andy!
The rainbow is beautiful🤩
we love pecos hank we all say in unison
we love pecos hank!!!
Didn't know how much I needed this video til I saw it. Stunning. Thanks so much Hank
Always a great day to see an upload from PecosHank !
Hank, I just wanna say that you are a huge inspiration to me and you made me lose my fear of storms. Thank you so much for everything that you do !
Nature stole my heart thousands of times over❤...
Very informative, and funny to boot! Love your videos!
Thank you! You know us well! Definitely a needed light in these times.
You create such a rich vision of beauty, combined with your humor and critter friendliness, you help us appreciate the priceless wonders surrounding us.
It's always a good day when you post, but this one's for the soul.
I wish you and your loved ones, furies, feathered, scaled included the best. Happy trails!
Your awesome pecos hank thank you have a great day.
Thank you!
I almost always notice a faint glow around my shadow when it's stark, and figured this is due to some phenomenon or other caused by light bending around the edges of my body, resulting in the border of the shadow appearing marginally brighter than the area immediately beyond.
Man, there are so many bad explainers out there on atmospheric optics, getting iridescence and halos mixed up, getting diffraction and refraction mixed up, etc. This video is one of the few I've seen get everything right, and in such a short time with great visual examples too. Fantastic video!
A rainbow with someone eating a sprinkled donut is the most impressive display of Mother Nature. I hope that someone enjoyed that donut because I want one now.
The shadow that appears on top of a bank of fog or mist is called a 'Brocken Spectre', possibly because it was frequently seen from atop a hill in Germany (?) called Brocken. It used to scare the living daylights out of hill walkers until it was realised that the 'spectre' was just the walkers' shadow cast onto the fog-bank by the sun behind them.
And thankyou for confirming something I'd long suspected, but hadn't been able to confirm or deny because of lack of evidence, and that's the fact you can't get rainbows at mid-day. I'd already worked out that lower the sun was in the sky, the higher and more full a rainbow's arc is going to be. It'd worked this out some years ago, and was privileged to see a three-quarters arc late in the evening on a summer's day one year. I have wondered if there was a set of conditions that would allow you to see a full circle, but that would require leaving the ground in some manner!
One other interesting fact about rainbows: if you see a rainbow in the morning, there's a good chance you're about to get very wet! I learned this the hard way over thirty years ago. I was waiting for a bus to go in to work when I saw it, and was somewhat surprised. Moments later, the heavens opened and I got drenched. It was the one and only time I've seen a morning rainbow: do they tend to be rarer that afternoon ones?
I almost gave that explanation of the Brocken spectre, but decided to keep it moving fast. Thanks for filling in the gap Carolyn.
Very informative as usual! Thanks!
I was just thinking about you yesterday while I was driving through the desert (well, it was green river UT) thank you Hank, love your videos as always. I never knew Roy's middle name was Gay, learn something new every day 😂 this was seriously so cool though, appreciate all your beautiful content!!
Man I wish I was where you are. Cheers from Texas.
Pecos Hank: takes an expensive piece of electronics and sticks it in the water
Me: 👀
Thank you, Hank. Wonderful content as usual!
Wow. I came here for weather, but learned that the sun is 2 degrees of earth rotation behind. I can't believe I never realized that. Thank you for all you do hank.
thanks Hank
waiting from weeks to weeks, very happy to see Hank post again!
Gorgeous video and well timed. Thanks, Hank!
Wow!!! Beautiful work!
Thank you Hank for another awesome video. Happy trails from Australia Hank 😊
That . . . was so sciency! Love it
Thank you for the gorgeous video, and the cool info; who knew Rainbows were so varied? Monochrome Rainbows!?
The Universe and the World are Awesome!
each and every time you do something on your channel, I'm always in front of my screen doing "Ohhh.....Ahhhhh......WOW......." . man, you're good!! And a heck of a good teacher. Thank you very much sir!
This video was enlightening
so glad to start this weekend with another great video from you. been following your work since i was 9 years old in 2013, and now im in college for journalism and film, i owe you a lot for helping me foster my passion for understanding how the world works and the wonder of nature. i've been loving my weather and climate class, and am hoping to become a proper storm chaser, nature photographer, and environmental activist/journalist. i really needed a reminder of why i love what i do after this week... the future is uncertain and rather terrifying but love, joy and life's pleasures can never be taken from us
Wow! 🎉What a FANTASTIC video Hank! Thank you so much ❤❤❤❤❤❤
Thank you Sir GOD bless you.
Hey this was wonderful ❤❤❤❤ loved it!
I'm all in for more Science with Pecos Hank.
You have the voice of a national geographic narrator in the best way
Hank, I just wrapped my first year of storm chasing and a lot of that’s thanks to you.
See you in 4 or 5 months.
Hi, no idea if you ever get the time to read all the wonderful comments, but here's another one. I once found you(r channel) while investigating the many unique forms of lightning. Immediately captivated by your calm voice, soft musical guidance and stunning imagery I knew I found something I'd love to watch more from. And you remain one of the creators of which I always look forward to watching what you came to share with us. I absolutely enjoyed the big road trip in southern America and I think I went through your video history for all things lightning related often being sidetracked by some unique tornado or small little story. I just wanted to say, thank you for all the videos! Greetings from the Netherlands!
I try to read all the new ones on recent videos. A video like this one actually costs me money (and a lot of time) to make so I really appreciate you taking the time to chime in. Cheers from Texas!
One of my favorite things to photograph is the sky. Mostly sunsets.
Thank you for shining your light once again in these times. Keep being awesome Hank and stay safe.
Always great to hear from you dude, hopefully things start to get better.
I loved this video, the one with the sun being way lower has absolutely flabbergasted me
Thank you for that, Hank 💟