What does it mean when you see a rainbow and it didn't even rain?

Question

what does it mean when you see a rainbow and it doesn't even rain.

Answer 1

white light is actually the combination of all the colors of the spectrum (rainbow). When white light goes through a prism or water particles, the light gets split and turns into all the different colors of the rainbow.

Just because it didn't rain doesn't necessarily mean that weren't any water droplets or particles high up in the sky.

Answer 2

their is water in the sky aka humidity and the sun light bounces through it. I think it is beautiful seeing a rainless rainbow

Answer 3

It has to rain at the proper angle from the sun for you to see the spectrum. If you are rained on it won't be the proper angle. If I remember you need to have the rain behind you and sun in front.

Answer 4

iether theres a leprechaun or there was mist in the air which to the human eye is a rainbow

Answer 5

that the reflection is from a large body of water.

Answer 6

There's a lot of air moisture

Answer 7

You dropped to much LSD

Answer 8

oh it means it's rained somewhere close by..so there's a guess still moisture in the air..I saw one like that about 4 years ago when I first moved in to my apartment