Hey, how about making a list like this, but with types of clouds? I would love to see a rank with mammatus, roll, fallstreak hole, asperitas, lenticular cloud and more
As a truck driver with crazy hours, I have seen several of these phenomena but certainly not all of them. Many of these images were absolutely amazing, thanks! Loved this video, you never disappoint!👍 PS I lived in CORONA, CA for 4 years!
I used to drive class B passenger endorsement all over U.S. and Canada, and I developed mad respect for truck drivers. Thank you for the immensely valuable work you do. Doctors and nurses got a lot of love over the past few years, which they should have, but truck drivers got worked to death (often while dealing with rules & regulations that make no sense) without your contribution being recognized. So again, thank you!
Once I was being pushed on a swing and noticed a rainbow, but then I was like, wait a second I was upside down. Turned out to be a beautiful circumzenithal arc.
Should've included more effects around the moon. I spent a year at sea on night shifts and the full moon would have ginormous rings and rainbows of light and would reflect unto the ocean top sometimes starting directly down on us until merging at the edge of the earth, kinda like a spotlight from heaven that quieted the entire ocean. Hands down the most tranquil feeling you'll ever have under the moon.
I love looking at rainbows in rain clouds from above while I'm working on the plane. It's pretty cool and sorta moves along with the plane. Meanwhile no one on the ground can see them because they are covered in cloud down there.
The rarest atmospheric optical phenomenon I have encountred was a Brocken specter under a fog bow. The green flash is pretty common here at the Califonia coast. If the horizon is very clear, chances are good. I have seen as many as 6 green flashes a year. Really good ones are very rare, especially the ones that look like a green beam shooting up into the sky.
Very cool, loved it! I have seen the Earthquake lights myself, twice, both times in California. The theory I heard was these are pockets of some gas [can't remember which gas, sorry] that shoot up when the earthquake is starting at some depth below the surface and they look spooky as heck. The ones I have seen were silvery white, and might have been quite large, looked like some light effects at a rave or something. they had no specific type of former shape, some were pillars, some were balls, some sparkled then spread out, looking a bit like inter could lightning. The second and best display was in the Santa Ynez valley in California, from hiiiiiigh above right off the San Marcos pass, just north of Snta Barbara, and was about 1995, in the summer. Great work, let's hope you get to see some more of these rare events one day!
there's also a theory that high amounts of quartz in the ground can emit light. If you strike 2 pieces of quartz together in a dark room they emit light
@@leosullivan9228 We have Videos recorded directly next to the power lines and their flashes. We also see these blue lights during Tornadoes as power flashes and nobody ever called them Earthquake lights, but power flashes.
Once in the late 70's in the Hanford California area, we had triple Rainbows one morning. they were all complete and looked solid. They looked as if someone painted them onto the sky. At the next local art exhibit, most of the artwork consisted of triple rainbows. So apparently a lot of people saw them. The local paper said experts were quoted as saying this was a "once in a lifetime advent."
I really don't wanna sound like a shitpost, but when I was around 12 during footbal/soccer training it started raining and we went for shelter in a hut nearby. Our coach gave us free drinks from inside and after the rain was over, we saw a really clear quadrupel (or even faintly quintupel, but I don't remember exactly because it has been ~8 years) rainbow. But it wasn't big on the news. Location: Southern Germany
Either I am lucky, or it is more common. I saw triple rainbows from one single spot 3 or 4 times in my childhood, probably windows facing directly south are the key.
@@Yakez42 I've looked at pictures of three rainbows online. These pictures show faded, incomplete and partial rainbows. The ones we saw in Hanford California in the late 70's were complete perfectly spaced one over the top of each one with space between each one. Thy looked as if someone painted them on the sky. I would call this very rare. I've seen many pictures, none even come close.
When i was a kid, i loved learning about natural disasters and weather phenomena bc my exposure was purely educational, and there used to be a ton of cool books by national geographic and time that had amazing pictures. As i got older, my exposure became tragedies reported in the news like mudslides, floods, and earthquakes and i forgot how i could enjoy the awe i feel at the power and beauty of the earth. Thank you for bringing that feeling back!
I've seen double rainbows a few times. Once, I witnessed a double rainbow with a lightning storm against dark clouds within it (under the arc). Awesome sight.
It’s these dumb websites that keep saying “most people only see it OncE iN ThEIr LIfetIMEs” or some crap like that, with little to no evidence proving it. As he said in the video all rainbows are double rainbows due to double refraction and with most rainbows if you look closely enough you can probably at least make out an outline of its double
I have seen a bunch too. One time I was riding my bike in the evening when it was raining a little bit with thick clouds. Then the sky partially cleareld up and there was a sunset, a rainbow and rain at the same time.
All rainbows are doubled actually - it's just that the second one is fainter because it gets refracted and reflected around the rain droplets more and often either the background doesn't provide enough contrast for you to see them or the intensity of the incoming light isn't high enough (or both). In between the two rainbows is an area that appears darker called 'Alexander's band'.
I’ve seen that a few times out here where I live in Wyoming...a lightning storm and bolts of lightning with rays of light going through a big double rainbow.
Jacob I loved this one. Can you make a similar rarity video comparing different electrical phenomena like Elmo’s fire, auroras, and ball lightning? There’s tons of weird stuff involving electricity in the sky
I usually say that one of the few things that is actually nice about living in northern Sweden, close to the arctic circle, is that you can se nacreous clouds pretty often (maybe 3-6 times every winter or so). It looks absolutely stunning when the whole sky is filled with swirling colorful clouds. It's way more beautiful than auroras.
I've seen one rainbow halo once in my life, perfectly round around the sun and you could see every color of the rainbow in it. It was also on a very cold and cloudless day I'll never forget it, one of a kind experience
A few weeks ago, i had a rare experience of a shadow curtain effect: Early Western look at an eastbound flight, the sun cast shadows using the contrails diagonally across the sky. As the sky grew brighter, the shadows grew darker, which started to block the blue sky much thicker. For a brief moment, the stars shone through the gap, which was a unique view that has not been documented so far as I've researched.
Just saw a story from a man in Olympic Valley, CA who got a sweet picture of a cosmic chalice. It reminded me of this video so I had to come back and re-watch. If you make a sequel it would be cool to hear more about this one!
I love looking at photos and videos of beautiful skies for quite a while now. I can't quite describe the feeling, but seeing these absolutely breathtaking natural phenomena captured on camera manage to make my heart flutter every time. I'm very grateful that you have take your time to research to make this video. From the bottom of my heart, Thank you!.
I remember vividly as a kid, I was in the car on a highway in the evening and me and my sister saw the most beautiful cloud. It was harp shaped, golden in the middle, and on top were several striped iridescent/rainbow domes. My mom was furious because I kept on taking off my seatbelt to look at it but it was worth it since I’ve never seen anything like it since. For a while a thought I hallucinated it, but now I can say it was almost certainly cloud iridescence or nacreous clouds. Also as a kid I had a book about rare phenomena and the green flash was in it. I was obsessed with trying to see it so I watched countless sunsets and even as a adult it has eluded me.Maybe one day.
It took me so long to notice, but I have noticed that most of, if not all of your choices for background music in videos like this are a collection of different game soundtracks. Most notably a lot of lounge/menu music from Gran Turismo 4, 5, 6 and 7 and some Donkey Kong Country music, specifically a lot of underwater themese. Great choice!
Back when I lived in Oregon there were rainbows *all the time*, I probably saw a dozen or more per year, at least. It was so frequent in the beginning and end of the rainy season that they almost lost their novelty.
I tell you what I’ve never seen most of these but I also live DEEP in the sticks surrounded by millions of trees and hundreds of hills and mountains where the banjos play that country folk music! BUT one thing I do know is that this fellar is well informed and does his research effectively and efficiently!
this is why youtube exists edit: I live in Canada so I've seen a lot of these ice halos. One thing photos just seriously cannot capture, is the magnitude of them. They're so much BIGGER than anything you can imagine. They take up like half of the sky, you can barely see it all with your eyeballs if you look in one direction. They're so, so goddamn huge, so massive, so bright, it's truly awe-inspiring, you rethink reality. The photos just simply don't capture it.
Wow!. Ive only seen a few faint halos and maybe one sundog a year. Ive heard stories of ridiculous displays at ski resort from all the artificial snow in the air. Thanks for watching!
Your tornado video from the early 50's came up on my recommended list. I watched it and to my surprise it was very interesting. I checked out your video list and became a new subscriber after seeing the videos you have to offer. Just wanted to say thank you and I appreciate all the time and effort you put into your videos. Im going through your list right now and watching them. Thank you again.
I've never seen ranking of atmospheric phenomena before, I am not that familiar with the wider range of atmospheric phenomena, and this is the first video I have watched from this channel, let's hecking do this!
I was extremely obsessed with optical phenomena in the sky, especially Ice Halos as they are my favorite light phenomena! I've seen the Circumzenithal and Circumhorizontal arcs in my region where it is usually very rare to see them.
Very well done! Having lived in El Dorado, KS (or as the locals say it “L-dough-ray-dough”) We would sit pensively as the sirens would sound and the second that tone began to drop (attack tone) we’d run for the storm shelter. One night there was a malfunction. What was supposed to be a tornado watch (steady tone) the wail sounded more like the hi-low tone. We sat confused as we didn’t know the siren could do that.
Hey Jake, another awesome video! Some of the best content on YT, imo. Super interesting and very full of information. Some of them I’ve seen, some only heard of and a few I’ve never heard of! The last few seem like they belong on one of those “paranormal, caught on camera” shows. Thanks for uploading man! Keep on keepin on!
Loved the vid man! If you're ever looking for another idea, something like you did with this video but with electromagnetic phenomena (auroras, lightning, TLEs) would be really cool!
Earthquake lights are actually more common that you'd expect. I live in a seismic country, and I've seen many of these. Specially on an earthquake with magnitude 7+. It happens when street wires break and transformers explode. I would put it on extremely rare to rare cuz there are not many strong earthquakes on the world and the chances of it happening at night is also very random.
@@thelostmessenger it happens without there being a town there though and there's a theory that it is because of high amounts of quartz in the ground. look up Triboluminescence
@@thelostmessenger Its one explination for what ancient civilisations have seen. Though the phenomenon descibed above exists too, but that one isn't earthquake lights.
Love your videos! I've been intrested in storms since I was little. Back then I was scared of them but now I find them fascinating (mind you with a healthy respect of their destructive force). There was a few days ago a tornado hit my town. Could you do a video on the storm that hit the SPalding/Pike county area in GA? It also moved through Alabama & North/South Carolina.
I have a degree in Atmospheric Science, that I never used, opting to make bigger bucks as a medical sales rep. However, I never lost my love and enthusiasm for weather and climate. I see that you have the same love, and I am really enjoying your channel. Thanks.
One summer morning nearly twenty years ago, I was building a compost bin for a friend in the Catskills. At about 10 AM, she came out to inspect. During our conversation I began noticing a rainbow forming; but, there had been no rain. I am familiar with rainbows: at the horizon opposite to a low positioned afternoon sun. This sun was fairly high but hidden behind scattered clouds. The rainbow was forming not at the horizon but overhead and it was forming a circle around 90 degrees wide from my point of view when I held up my framing square! Having retired and and beginning to live near Woodstock, NY, I was not familiar with country weather phenomena and asked my friend if this was common. She had never seen such a rainbow but was not impressed. In the partly cloudy sky the rainbow completed its circle then began to form a second inner rainbow, just like those in double rainbows. I thought about taking a picture, but, in the era before cell phone cameras, my Nikon was in the house many yards away. So, I do not have any documentation about this double rainbow that formed directly over head. Over the years I have enquired about how such a phenomenon might form, such as the sun reflecting off the nearby reservoir but that at an equal angle to the sun’s angle and opposite to the sun. This was a perfect double rainbow at zenith with an angular displacement from my eye of 90 degrees! I am familiar with the phenomena you have described in your video, but have never ever had the phenomenon I saw described anywhere. Nor have I had its cause explained. Do you have an explanation?
I swear I saw my first super luminary rainbow as you described it, a few months back. I thought it was probably the coolest rainbow I've ever seen and got a photo of it.
thank you for making this video! i saw something outside my window this morning that looked kinda like a rainbow but clearly wasn’t and now i know exactly what it was. it was a sundog
Cloud iridescence is beautiful. Never seen it as vibrant as in those pictures though, it was more "faded". Never seen a "glory", but I have seen my own shadow in the fog, a very creepy phenomenon. I wonder if the green flash is more common in Africa? I remember reading a book taking place somewhere in Africa where one of the characters mentioned "the green mamba", the sky turning green at sunset.
I feel like a lot of this is dependent on your location, I live in Canada so I see sun dogs a lot, I hope to one-day live in northern Norway though because I’d love to see a lot of these really interesting Arctic light phenomena
An interesting thing has happened twice for me and I don’t know if it has a name. Very rarely after thunderstorms, the sky becomes a bright shade of yellow rather than blue. It is impossible to capture it with a camera for some reason, but it is definitely noticeable to everyone around me. For about an hour, everything, even the inside of my house, has a strong yellow tint. Everything looks very dark and depressing, but it goes away very quickly. It’s almost like living in sepia.
It is most likely due to the combination of dust particles and moisture scattered in the sky after a severe thunderstorm that just so happens to let a lot of yellow light through and absorb the other shorter wavelength lights.
I'm planning on making a space exploration in the future game and your videos help give me ideas for really cool meteorological (I think that's the right term) phenomena to add to the different planets you can explore
Ideas for further parts of this series: types of lightning. Types of clouds Types of moons (like when it gets really big or really reddish) Types of storms Maybe some history on terrible hurricanes Types of meteorites That’s all I got.
Were you pursuing a career in being a weatherman at any point? The intro to the vid, and seeing the weatherman made me think to ask. Your voice and demeanor are perfect for the job, or for this job of being a UA-camr! good stuff
I remember seeing one of those arcs before when i was really little, it still amazing to remember because it looked like an upsidedown rainbow and I've never seen it again
Its very cold where I live so I end up seeing a lot of the cold weather ones you listed here. I feel special to see such weird things in the sky quite frequently
Maybe off context a bit but when you say "This is very common" at 7:32 it felt like sometimes the sun might not be there Also i really love halos and arc, they looks spectacular, proprelly sun dogs are my favorite, but its been long since last time i saw an halos, so i will proprelly go hunt them in the future
hooked on the idea of investigating random atmospheric phenomenon, instant subscribe! also you have really interesting facial features. You look like an actor or something, maybe it's the hair. good look.
This is the first of your videos that Ive seen and thought you said "all my other vids are about tomatoes..." and i thought like huh, strange that this guy is doing vids about tomatoes but this one right here Im really enjoying. Only now after reading the description I understood xD
Earthquake lights does sound plausible. In BBQ lighters, the igniter creates an electric spark by squishing a tiny little quartz crystal. Quartz is the most common mineral in the ground. All that quaking oughta cause a piezoelectric effect.
Great video summary! I've been fortunate to see many of those you listed, I think partly just because I'm always looking around and up. I've seen two circumzenithal arcs at Yosemite, when everyone else was looking at waterfalls, until I pointed them out. One thing you left out, although related to the crepuscular rays you touched on, are the anti-crepuscular rays. If conditions are right, when the sun is just below the horizon, directly opposite the sun, the crepuscular rays from the sun will appear to converge at the anti-solar point! Not flashy-pretty like a bright rainbow, but really cool to see once you know what's going on!
One of the most awesome phenomena i ever saw was at about 6 am on a very cold January day. I looked up and saw an "icebow." It was so cold that the ice crystals in the upper atmosphere was refracting light like a rainbow. I got several pictures of it. Totally amazing.
Moonbows happen at Cumberland Falls in Ky. I have seen them. It did appear mostly white, but I could see some of the blue and green in the light! It's really cool!
I remember a solar halo in middle school that had all of us kids freaking out. Saw a really good lunar halo a few years back, and an extremely vivid sun dog just recently.
My husband and I saw a double solar halo while in Florida over ten years ago. And we’ve seen rainbow moon halos as well. I took pictures of most of them.
as someone who lives somewhere with so much pollution to the point where it's almost rare to even see the moon at night, all of these belong in the right most category
Wow I didn’t think the Saratoga Lights would be mentioned since I’ve seen Bragg Road on ghost hunting videos. I thought maybe you’d mention the Marfa Lights on the other side of Texas, at least before the Saratoga Lights.
4:19 Speaking of monochrome rainbows, i got a absolutely epic photo of a monochrome rainbow and a close up fork lightning, about a kilometer away from where i took it
About 15 years ago while we still had proper winter and completely different 4 seasons here, it was really cool the observe all these phenomenons. Double or triple rainbows and colorful or noctilucent clouds - have all you want of them during the summer, usually around the longest day of the year. Sundogs and light pillars - enjoy them in the winter. Fogbows and virga aurora - have them in the spring and in the autumn. Now we have basically hot and humid and slightly chilly and less humid throughout the entire year. Growing up as a kid i never imagined that i would be missing the clearly distinct 4 seasons. It was just like clockwork. March, April, May - Spring; fresh air, warm breezes, random showers, blossoming threes and incredible aroma in the air. June, July, August - Summer - super hot weather, proper massive thunderstorms, with epic clouds and lightning, occasional cool breezes, fireflies over the fields at night and crickets in the grass. September, October, November - Autumn - cooler temps, colorful leaves, more subtle rain storms and perfect melancholic weekends with drizzle and slight wind. December, January, February - Winter. Proper old-time winter with a lot of snow. When it started snowing in early December, it kept on snowing and the white background was everywhere until the end of February. Looking at a full on blizzard outside from the cozy interior of the room with the wood fire crackling... Damn, i really miss those days.
I remember a few months ago, I was in the car with my mom and we saw this weird light in the sky. It was kind of like a cloud, but it was bluish and moving rapidly. By the time it stopped moving, it looked almost like a galaxy. It was insane, I’ve only ever seen that once in my lifetime, and I’ll probably never see it again.
Once in the middle of the night in a frigid below zero night in Minnesota, every light I drove by was shining upward and not downward. Like a pillar of light extending up into the sky from every street light, all the lights in the rail switchyard, skyscrapers. It wasn’t foggy, it was crystal clear. I have no idea what it was. My first crazy thought was some kind of unknown giant craft above sucking energy from the lights, but I honestly have never seen it before or since.
I’ve seen photos of that. My, what a sight that must have been for you! I can only hope someday I get to see that! I feel the same way about the Northern Lights! They reminded me in those photos of what it might look like when the Rapture happens! Miraculous!
Hey, how about making a list like this, but with types of clouds? I would love to see a rank with mammatus, roll, fallstreak hole, asperitas, lenticular cloud and more
For sure.. I added to my ever expanding video list. Thanks!
Ah yes… *roll*
@@SwegleStudios Couldnt sprites be also counted as very rare atmospheric events?
@@nordic24Really, somwhere at extremely rare
@@Gic424_YT they literally said “clouds” after the list ended
Man, the rarest thing I've ever seen was a double rainbow and I feel like I'm missing out.
I was gonna comment the exact same thing
Same man.... And that was the last cool thing in the sky I ever saw 😭
I saw a few double rainbows and a rainbow cloud, if i ever say the spiral thingy i'd have a heart attack. That things freaky.
The common thing like sun beams show that the sun is close. Or do u believe the deceiver of nasa n their 63million mile lie
Man rarest thing I seen was a double moonbow
As a truck driver with crazy hours, I have seen several of these phenomena but certainly not all of them. Many of these images were absolutely amazing, thanks! Loved this video, you never disappoint!👍 PS I lived in CORONA, CA for 4 years!
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my goofy brain really thought CA was Canada even though I also live in cali
I used to drive class B passenger endorsement all over U.S. and Canada, and I developed mad respect for truck drivers. Thank you for the immensely valuable work you do. Doctors and nurses got a lot of love over the past few years, which they should have, but truck drivers got worked to death (often while dealing with rules & regulations that make no sense) without your contribution being recognized. So again, thank you!
@@______IV thanks, I greatly appreciate that!
holy shit so ur saying u mightve been my uber driver
Once I was being pushed on a swing and noticed a rainbow, but then I was like, wait a second I was upside down. Turned out to be a beautiful circumzenithal arc.
Should've included more effects around the moon. I spent a year at sea on night shifts and the full moon would have ginormous rings and rainbows of light and would reflect unto the ocean top sometimes starting directly down on us until merging at the edge of the earth, kinda like a spotlight from heaven that quieted the entire ocean. Hands down the most tranquil feeling you'll ever have under the moon.
Sounds heavenly
Don't bring up spotlight moon I get nasty flat earth flashbacks.
@@civotamuaz5781 hahaha same
That sounds incredible!
@@civotamuaz5781 Hahaha!
I love looking at rainbows in rain clouds from above while I'm working on the plane. It's pretty cool and sorta moves along with the plane. Meanwhile no one on the ground can see them because they are covered in cloud down there.
The rarest atmospheric optical phenomenon I have encountred was a Brocken specter under a fog bow. The green flash is pretty common here at the Califonia coast. If the horizon is very clear, chances are good. I have seen as many as 6 green flashes a year. Really good ones are very rare, especially the ones that look like a green beam shooting up into the sky.
Taste the rainbow
Very cool, loved it!
I have seen the Earthquake lights myself, twice, both times in California. The theory I heard was these are pockets of some gas [can't remember which gas, sorry] that shoot up when the earthquake is starting at some depth below the surface and they look spooky as heck. The ones I have seen were silvery white, and might have been quite large, looked like some light effects at a rave or something. they had no specific type of former shape, some were pillars, some were balls, some sparkled then spread out, looking a bit like inter could lightning. The second and best display was in the Santa Ynez valley in California, from hiiiiiigh above right off the San Marcos pass, just north of Snta Barbara, and was about 1995, in the summer.
Great work, let's hope you get to see some more of these rare events one day!
there's also a theory that high amounts of quartz in the ground can emit light. If you strike 2 pieces of quartz together in a dark room they emit light
piezo-electrical crystals - mostly quartz- are abundant in Earth's crust
@@tripplefives1402 where's the statistical evidence for this statistical claim ?
Without a doubt earthquake lights are an electromagnetic phenomenon.
@@leosullivan9228 We have Videos recorded directly next to the power lines and their flashes.
We also see these blue lights during Tornadoes as power flashes and nobody ever called them Earthquake lights, but power flashes.
I live by the farm with lots of fog throughout the year and I literally have never heard of or seen a fogbow. it looks absolutely sick
I’ve seen a fog bow, a moon bow, and a snow bow.
@@BeardedBarley1 ever seen a wooden bow or a compound bow? they're amazing!
@@Killbayne what about a cross bow?
@@simonsays_999 we don't talk about the cross bow.
Once in the late 70's in the Hanford California area, we had triple Rainbows one morning. they were all complete and looked solid. They looked as if someone painted them onto the sky. At the next local art exhibit, most of the artwork consisted of triple rainbows. So apparently a lot of people saw them. The local paper said experts were quoted as saying this was a "once in a lifetime advent."
I really don't wanna sound like a shitpost, but
when I was around 12 during footbal/soccer training it started raining
and we went for shelter in a hut nearby. Our coach gave us free drinks from inside
and after the rain was over, we saw a really clear quadrupel (or even faintly quintupel,
but I don't remember exactly because it has been ~8 years) rainbow.
But it wasn't big on the news.
Location: Southern Germany
Either I am lucky, or it is more common. I saw triple rainbows from one single spot 3 or 4 times in my childhood, probably windows facing directly south are the key.
@@Yakez42 I've looked at pictures of three rainbows online. These pictures show faded, incomplete and partial rainbows. The ones we saw in Hanford California in the late 70's were complete perfectly spaced one over the top of each one with space between each one. Thy looked as if someone painted them on the sky. I would call this very rare. I've seen many pictures, none even come close.
When i was a kid, i loved learning about natural disasters and weather phenomena bc my exposure was purely educational, and there used to be a ton of cool books by national geographic and time that had amazing pictures. As i got older, my exposure became tragedies reported in the news like mudslides, floods, and earthquakes and i forgot how i could enjoy the awe i feel at the power and beauty of the earth. Thank you for bringing that feeling back!
No problem! Thanks for watching!
Same man, I'm glad I grew up watching these things instead of Cockmelon.
@@anaxolotl6637 instead of what
@@boobysr Instead of Cocomelon
@@SwegleStudios why did you need permission to try and use the kern arc photo
I've seen double rainbows a few times. Once, I witnessed a double rainbow with a lightning storm against dark clouds within it (under the arc). Awesome sight.
I honestly thing double rainbows are much more common than most think. The majority of the rainbows I’ve seen were double. Maybe I’m just lucky 😅
It’s these dumb websites that keep saying “most people only see it OncE iN ThEIr LIfetIMEs” or some crap like that, with little to no evidence proving it. As he said in the video all rainbows are double rainbows due to double refraction and with most rainbows if you look closely enough you can probably at least make out an outline of its double
I have seen a bunch too. One time I was riding my bike in the evening when it was raining a little bit with thick clouds. Then the sky partially cleareld up and there was a sunset, a rainbow and rain at the same time.
All rainbows are doubled actually - it's just that the second one is fainter because it gets refracted and reflected around the rain droplets more and often either the background doesn't provide enough contrast for you to see them or the intensity of the incoming light isn't high enough (or both).
In between the two rainbows is an area that appears darker called 'Alexander's band'.
I’ve seen that a few times out here where I live in Wyoming...a lightning storm and bolts of lightning with rays of light going through a big double rainbow.
“This is the sun ok, this is very common”
Jacob I loved this one.
Can you make a similar rarity video comparing different electrical phenomena like Elmo’s fire, auroras, and ball lightning?
There’s tons of weird stuff involving electricity in the sky
literally what I'm currently working on haha
Elmo’s world 🙃
I usually say that one of the few things that is actually nice about living in northern Sweden, close to the arctic circle, is that you can se nacreous clouds pretty often (maybe 3-6 times every winter or so). It looks absolutely stunning when the whole sky is filled with swirling colorful clouds. It's way more beautiful than auroras.
Neato.
I've seen one rainbow halo once in my life, perfectly round around the sun and you could see every color of the rainbow in it. It was also on a very cold and cloudless day
I'll never forget it, one of a kind experience
A few weeks ago, i had a rare experience of a shadow curtain effect:
Early Western look at an eastbound flight, the sun cast shadows using the contrails diagonally across the sky.
As the sky grew brighter, the shadows grew darker, which started to block the blue sky much thicker.
For a brief moment, the stars shone through the gap, which was a unique view that has not been documented so far as I've researched.
These atmospheric rivers hitting California are awesome!
Standing at the top of the Grand Canyon, I saw a 270 ° rainbow starting at the bottom and sweeping up and out to my level. Blew me away.
Just saw a story from a man in Olympic Valley, CA who got a sweet picture of a cosmic chalice. It reminded me of this video so I had to come back and re-watch. If you make a sequel it would be cool to hear more about this one!
I love looking at photos and videos of beautiful skies for quite a while now. I can't quite describe the feeling, but seeing these absolutely breathtaking natural phenomena captured on camera manage to make my heart flutter every time. I'm very grateful that you have take your time to research to make this video. From the bottom of my heart, Thank you!.
I have a meteorology degree and you did amazing. 7:30 yes I’ve seen the sun a few times 😂. 5:21 pretty sure that’s N64 golden eye music! Subbed!
I've seen about 1/3 of these myself. But, you almost have to know that they exist first. Super educational video.
I remember vividly as a kid, I was in the car on a highway in the evening and me and my sister saw the most beautiful cloud. It was harp shaped, golden in the middle, and on top were several striped iridescent/rainbow domes. My mom was furious because I kept on taking off my seatbelt to look at it but it was worth it since I’ve never seen anything like it since. For a while a thought I hallucinated it, but now I can say it was almost certainly cloud iridescence or nacreous clouds.
Also as a kid I had a book about rare phenomena and the green flash was in it. I was obsessed with trying to see it so I watched countless sunsets and even as a adult it has eluded me.Maybe one day.
It took me so long to notice, but I have noticed that most of, if not all of your choices for background music in videos like this are a collection of different game soundtracks. Most notably a lot of lounge/menu music from Gran Turismo 4, 5, 6 and 7 and some Donkey Kong Country music, specifically a lot of underwater themese. Great choice!
I know nothing about math but those rare arcs look geometrically satisfying.
Yeah, they really do. Totally.
Rarest thing i've seen is probably once when we had a double rainbow with the multiple bands on each, it was really vibrant and looked really cool
Back when I lived in Oregon there were rainbows *all the time*, I probably saw a dozen or more per year, at least. It was so frequent in the beginning and end of the rainy season that they almost lost their novelty.
I tell you what I’ve never seen most of these but I also live DEEP in the sticks surrounded by millions of trees and hundreds of hills and mountains where the banjos play that country folk music! BUT one thing I do know is that this fellar is well informed and does his research effectively and efficiently!
this is why youtube exists
edit: I live in Canada so I've seen a lot of these ice halos. One thing photos just seriously cannot capture, is the magnitude of them. They're so much BIGGER than anything you can imagine. They take up like half of the sky, you can barely see it all with your eyeballs if you look in one direction. They're so, so goddamn huge, so massive, so bright, it's truly awe-inspiring, you rethink reality. The photos just simply don't capture it.
Wow!. Ive only seen a few faint halos and maybe one sundog a year. Ive heard stories of ridiculous displays at ski resort from all the artificial snow in the air. Thanks for watching!
Circumhorizontal arcs and virga aurora are probably the rarest thing I see here tbh.
there are not many feelings greater than seeing a circumzenithal arc and telling somebody who's never seen one before to look up
I've actually seen a Glories Broken Spectre while hiking at sunset and have a video of it. It was really cool to experience it.
Your tornado video from the early 50's came up on my recommended list. I watched it and to my surprise it was very interesting. I checked out your video list and became a new subscriber after seeing the videos you have to offer. Just wanted to say thank you and I appreciate all the time and effort you put into your videos. Im going through your list right now and watching them. Thank you again.
I've never seen ranking of atmospheric phenomena before, I am not that familiar with the wider range of atmospheric phenomena, and this is the first video I have watched from this channel, let's hecking do this!
I was extremely obsessed with optical phenomena in the sky, especially Ice Halos as they are my favorite light phenomena! I've seen the Circumzenithal and Circumhorizontal arcs in my region where it is usually very rare to see them.
Very well done! Having lived in El Dorado, KS (or as the locals say it “L-dough-ray-dough”) We would sit pensively as the sirens would sound and the second that tone began to drop (attack tone) we’d run for the storm shelter. One night there was a malfunction. What was supposed to be a tornado watch (steady tone) the wail sounded more like the hi-low tone. We sat confused as we didn’t know the siren could do that.
dude, this is MY SHIT. please more. i'm mad it took me so long to come across this channel but i'm so glad i did :D
For everyone wondering the sunbeam background and intro song is donkey kong country 2 forest interlude,
Donkey kong music is the best recommend it!
Hey Jake, another awesome video! Some of the best content on YT, imo. Super interesting and very full of information. Some of them I’ve seen, some only heard of and a few I’ve never heard of! The last few seem like they belong on one of those “paranormal, caught on camera” shows. Thanks for uploading man! Keep on keepin on!
Thanks! Will do!
Oh my Gods! You featured footage from Wavy 10, which is local to my area! Excitement.
Loved the vid man! If you're ever looking for another idea, something like you did with this video but with electromagnetic phenomena (auroras, lightning, TLEs) would be really cool!
Really gotta give it to you for using Donkey Kong Country music. Really hits that particular feeling everytime I hear it. Great video! 🙂
Earthquake lights are actually more common that you'd expect. I live in a seismic country, and I've seen many of these. Specially on an earthquake with magnitude 7+. It happens when street wires break and transformers explode. I would put it on extremely rare to rare cuz there are not many strong earthquakes on the world and the chances of it happening at night is also very random.
So it happens because of people's street wires and not because the grounds has some wired effect on the sky. Should have guessed that
@@thelostmessenger it happens without there being a town there though and there's a theory that it is because of high amounts of quartz in the ground. look up Triboluminescence
@@8_8_88 thanks! Will look it up
@@8_8_88 okay you're right since in earthquakes the tectonic plates rub against each other it would make sense that lights occur
@@thelostmessenger Its one explination for what ancient civilisations have seen. Though the phenomenon descibed above exists too, but that one isn't earthquake lights.
Ur channel is so random but interesting and very informational about the world we live in. Thanks you keep up the good work ❤
Thanks for watching!
Love your videos! I've been intrested in storms since I was little. Back then I was scared of them but now I find them fascinating (mind you with a healthy respect of their destructive force). There was a few days ago a tornado hit my town. Could you do a video on the storm that hit the SPalding/Pike county area in GA? It also moved through Alabama & North/South Carolina.
Thanks for the suggestion! I currently have a list of like 50 tornado videos haha but I'm sure I'll get to it soon.
I have a degree in Atmospheric Science, that I never used, opting to make bigger bucks as a medical sales rep. However, I never lost my love and enthusiasm for weather and climate. I see that you have the same love, and I am really enjoying your channel. Thanks.
I saw moon halo in India at night time it was a perfect circle around moon it was beautiful ❤
That sounds like an epic insult. "You're such a crepuscular ray!"
One summer morning nearly twenty years ago, I was building a compost bin for a friend in the Catskills. At about 10 AM, she came out to inspect. During our conversation I began noticing a rainbow forming; but, there had been no rain.
I am familiar with rainbows: at the horizon opposite to a low positioned afternoon sun. This sun was fairly high but hidden behind scattered clouds. The rainbow was forming not at the horizon but overhead and it was forming a circle around 90 degrees wide from my point of view when I held up my framing square!
Having retired and and beginning to live near Woodstock, NY, I was not familiar with country weather phenomena and asked my friend if this was common. She had never seen such a rainbow but was not impressed.
In the partly cloudy sky the rainbow completed its circle then began to form a second inner rainbow, just like those in double rainbows.
I thought about taking a picture, but, in the era before cell phone cameras, my Nikon was in the house many yards away. So, I do not have any documentation about this double rainbow that formed directly over head.
Over the years I have enquired about how such a phenomenon might form, such as the sun reflecting off the nearby reservoir but that at an equal angle to the sun’s angle and opposite to the sun.
This was a perfect double rainbow at zenith with an angular displacement from my eye of 90 degrees!
I am familiar with the phenomena you have described in your video, but have never ever had the phenomenon I saw described anywhere. Nor have I had its cause explained.
Do you have an explanation?
I swear I saw my first super luminary rainbow as you described it, a few months back. I thought it was probably the coolest rainbow I've ever seen and got a photo of it.
Thank you for compiling these videos and images! They’re beautiful❤
I honestly couldn't be more amazed. Wow. BEAUTIFUL
thank you for making this video! i saw something outside my window this morning that looked kinda like a rainbow but clearly wasn’t and now i know exactly what it was. it was a sundog
I love that you added the 64 rainbow road theme.
Cloud iridescence is beautiful. Never seen it as vibrant as in those pictures though, it was more "faded". Never seen a "glory", but I have seen my own shadow in the fog, a very creepy phenomenon.
I wonder if the green flash is more common in Africa? I remember reading a book taking place somewhere in Africa where one of the characters mentioned "the green mamba", the sky turning green at sunset.
I've seen the crown flash twice in my life. It's pretty fantastic.
I feel like a lot of this is dependent on your location, I live in Canada so I see sun dogs a lot, I hope to one-day live in northern Norway though because I’d love to see a lot of these really interesting Arctic light phenomena
Thanks for your time stamp,
It so helpfull for me to understand each phenomena.
Thanks for putting this together...very cool!
So glad that I found this channel! It fits my niche exactly.
An interesting thing has happened twice for me and I don’t know if it has a name. Very rarely after thunderstorms, the sky becomes a bright shade of yellow rather than blue. It is impossible to capture it with a camera for some reason, but it is definitely noticeable to everyone around me. For about an hour, everything, even the inside of my house, has a strong yellow tint. Everything looks very dark and depressing, but it goes away very quickly. It’s almost like living in sepia.
It is most likely due to the combination of dust particles and moisture scattered in the sky after a severe thunderstorm that just so happens to let a lot of yellow light through and absorb the other shorter wavelength lights.
Trueeee
@@jasonchiu272 quite a straightforward explanation, thank you
I’ve seen it here in Wyoming, too. It is pretty eerie but also kind of miraculous as well.
It has happened a good amount of times in the United Arab Emirates/ Middle East
I love how the rarity is just based on if you've seen it lmao
This video was so nice!! Relaxing, fun, and educational. Thanks! :D
i clicked on the video expecting to see cool clouds and stuff but then was immediately jumpscared by a beautiful man wtf
Nice Minecraft text at the end😏
Its not quite the Mojangles font
Dang Koner, you were early
@@SwegleStudios I rushed to the comments!
I'm planning on making a space exploration in the future game and your videos help give me ideas for really cool meteorological (I think that's the right term) phenomena to add to the different planets you can explore
Ideas for further parts of this series:
types of lightning.
Types of clouds
Types of moons (like when it gets really big or really reddish)
Types of storms
Maybe some history on terrible hurricanes
Types of meteorites
That’s all I got.
Were you pursuing a career in being a weatherman at any point? The intro to the vid, and seeing the weatherman made me think to ask. Your voice and demeanor are perfect for the job, or for this job of being a UA-camr! good stuff
I remember seeing one of those arcs before when i was really little, it still amazing to remember because it looked like an upsidedown rainbow and I've never seen it again
Its very cold where I live so I end up seeing a lot of the cold weather ones you listed here. I feel special to see such weird things in the sky quite frequently
yesterday i saw a lunar halo and didnt know it was a light phenomenon! And I got this video recommended today! Weird but cool!
Maybe off context a bit but when you say "This is very common" at 7:32 it felt like sometimes the sun might not be there
Also i really love halos and arc, they looks spectacular, proprelly sun dogs are my favorite, but its been long since last time i saw an halos, so i will proprelly go hunt them in the future
I’ve seen double rainbows, sun dogs, and moon halos and they never cease to amaze me. We live in a beautiful world!
hooked on the idea of investigating random atmospheric phenomenon, instant subscribe! also you have really interesting facial features. You look like an actor or something, maybe it's the hair. good look.
This is the first of your videos that Ive seen and thought you said "all my other vids are about tomatoes..." and i thought like huh, strange that this guy is doing vids about tomatoes but this one right here Im really enjoying. Only now after reading the description I understood xD
I once saw a rainbow that was simultaneously double, supernumerary, and twinned - probably the rarest such phenomenon I've seen
This video is so damn good! Gonna adopt your strategy of visual categorization and integrate the analysis into our physics model.
Best looking thumbnail on this channel so far!
That goldeneye 007 theme in the background made me so nostalgic, wonderful video!
Earthquake lights does sound plausible. In BBQ lighters, the igniter creates an electric spark by squishing a tiny little quartz crystal. Quartz is the most common mineral in the ground. All that quaking oughta cause a piezoelectric effect.
Great video summary! I've been fortunate to see many of those you listed, I think partly just because I'm always looking around and up. I've seen two circumzenithal arcs at Yosemite, when everyone else was looking at waterfalls, until I pointed them out. One thing you left out, although related to the crepuscular rays you touched on, are the anti-crepuscular rays. If conditions are right, when the sun is just below the horizon, directly opposite the sun, the crepuscular rays from the sun will appear to converge at the anti-solar point! Not flashy-pretty like a bright rainbow, but really cool to see once you know what's going on!
It’s especially cool when it happens through a triple rainbow not over water.
One of the most awesome phenomena i ever saw was at about 6 am on a very cold January day. I looked up and saw an "icebow." It was so cold that the ice crystals in the upper atmosphere was refracting light like a rainbow. I got several pictures of it. Totally amazing.
Moonbows happen at Cumberland Falls in Ky. I have seen them. It did appear mostly white, but I could see some of the blue and green in the light! It's really cool!
Love the video, fun to watch, and don't take this wrong because this video is clearly just for fun but your ranking is almost entirely random
I remember a solar halo in middle school that had all of us kids freaking out. Saw a really good lunar halo a few years back, and an extremely vivid sun dog just recently.
My husband and I saw a double solar halo while in Florida over ten years ago. And we’ve seen rainbow moon halos as well. I took pictures of most of them.
as someone who lives somewhere with so much pollution to the point where it's almost rare to even see the moon at night, all of these belong in the right most category
The kern arc is a white faint arc on top of the circumzenital arc
Wow I didn’t think the Saratoga Lights would be mentioned since I’ve seen Bragg Road on ghost hunting videos. I thought maybe you’d mention the Marfa Lights on the other side of Texas, at least before the Saratoga Lights.
4:19 Speaking of monochrome rainbows, i got a absolutely epic photo of a monochrome rainbow and a close up fork lightning, about a kilometer away from where i took it
About 15 years ago while we still had proper winter and completely different 4 seasons here, it was really cool the observe all these phenomenons. Double or triple rainbows and colorful or noctilucent clouds - have all you want of them during the summer, usually around the longest day of the year. Sundogs and light pillars - enjoy them in the winter. Fogbows and virga aurora - have them in the spring and in the autumn. Now we have basically hot and humid and slightly chilly and less humid throughout the entire year.
Growing up as a kid i never imagined that i would be missing the clearly distinct 4 seasons. It was just like clockwork. March, April, May - Spring; fresh air, warm breezes, random showers, blossoming threes and incredible aroma in the air. June, July, August - Summer - super hot weather, proper massive thunderstorms, with epic clouds and lightning, occasional cool breezes, fireflies over the fields at night and crickets in the grass. September, October, November - Autumn - cooler temps, colorful leaves, more subtle rain storms and perfect melancholic weekends with drizzle and slight wind. December, January, February - Winter. Proper old-time winter with a lot of snow. When it started snowing in early December, it kept on snowing and the white background was everywhere until the end of February. Looking at a full on blizzard outside from the cozy interior of the room with the wood fire crackling... Damn, i really miss those days.
My family from Peru once told me they could see lights on the sky during the Pisco 2007 earthquake. They thought it was the end of the world
Been on a binge this year! my new fav channel thanks for everything ❤🎉
Wow! Thanks so much for watching. Many more vids to come!
love your vids man keep up the work!
Appreciate it!
@@SwegleStudios letsss goooo thx for replying
This is the best vid ever i wish i ciuld watch it for the firdt time again
Moonbows always make my night more magical. I see them somewhat frequently, especially on misty nights.
"This is the sun, this is very common" I lost 🤣
I remember a few months ago, I was in the car with my mom and we saw this weird light in the sky. It was kind of like a cloud, but it was bluish and moving rapidly. By the time it stopped moving, it looked almost like a galaxy. It was insane, I’ve only ever seen that once in my lifetime, and I’ll probably never see it again.
Blasdarnit, who gave the cumulonimbus cloud RGB lighting at 12:33? We have enough gamers as-is, we don't need clouds invading the market.
Once in the middle of the night in a frigid below zero night in Minnesota, every light I drove by was shining upward and not downward. Like a pillar of light extending up into the sky from every street light, all the lights in the rail switchyard, skyscrapers. It wasn’t foggy, it was crystal clear. I have no idea what it was. My first crazy thought was some kind of unknown giant craft above sucking energy from the lights, but I honestly have never seen it before or since.
I’ve seen photos of that. My, what a sight that must have been for you! I can only hope someday I get to see that! I feel the same way about the Northern Lights! They reminded me in those photos of what it might look like when the Rapture happens! Miraculous!
@@BeardedBarley1 yes! It’s going to be so amazing🖤🌈🫧when he comes in the clouds with power and great glory