March: Rainbow gleams amid the Hobart gloom

Web designer Jamie Scuglia enjoys his holidays around Australia, camera always on standby. In February 2008, Jamie was ensconced in a Hobart hotel and by late afternoon was glum about the less-than-summery water view. But the room turned out to be the right place at the right time as the sun came out during a rain shower and fashioned a rainbow over Victoria Dock and Sullivan’s Cove alongside the Derwent River. “The interesting lighting lasted perhaps 10 minutes,” he recalls.

Rainbows form when sunlight passes through water droplets in the atmosphere, such as rain, sea spray, mist or dew. The droplets act like prisms and divide white light into its spectrum of colours. Jamie and his mother Raffaelina are volunteer rainfall readers for the Bureau of Meteorology on their property outside Pakenham in Victoria.

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