We have dealt with rounds of storms each and every day for the past week but there is finally a glimmer of light in the forecast. A rare late June cold front moving through the southern plains is expected to have enough momentum to make it to Acadiana on Monday. That will help usher in drier air on Tuesday and Wednesday pushing the rain chances down to 20%. At this point the computer models are mostly agreeing on this scenerio and hopefully it holds up. The forecast for the 4th of July is still looking like a chance of afternoon storms as a return flow sets up again for the end of the week. That will put us back in the pattern of seabreeze storms with the daytime heating.
We had a beautiful double rainbow Friday evening with the second round of storms but by the time our camera captured the image it was just one rainbow. Double rainbows are quite rare but are caused from the sunlight shining through the raindrops. The rain refracts the light breaking it down into it’s primary colors. That gives us the illusion of a rainbow. If its bright enough, a double rainbow will appear and it’s basically a reflection of the rainbow through the showers. The colors are reversed in the second bow and it’s usually fainter than the first.