Sun and rain have combined to form some eye-catching rainbows across the region in recent days.
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Sunlight is actually made up of different colours that we don’t usually see. When a beam of sunlight comes down to Earth, the light is white. But if the light beam happens to hit raindrops at a certain angle, the different colours that make up the beam separate so we can see them in the form of a rainbow.
What you may not know is that all rainbows are actually double rainbows.
“If you look closely, any rainbow actually has a double, it is just the intensity that dictates if it is visible or not,” meteorologist Graeme Brittain explained.
Port Macquarie has a 40 per cent chance of rain on Thursday (November 23) with showers clearing into Friday with temperatures to peak at 26 degrees.
Saturday and Sunday will see temperatures in the high 20s with possible showers returning on Sunday.