You may see a lot of things of both the strange and mundane variety during your morning commute, but I bet you've never seen something quite as amazing as a quadruple rainbow before.
Oh. Yes. There was not one, not two, not three, but four rainbows in the sky Tuesday morning. They were spotted at the Glen Cove, N.Y. Long Island Railroad station.
Amanda Curtis, the CEO and co-founder of the Williamsburg-based fashion company Nineteenth Amendment, snapped the photo while waiting for the train. At first, Curtis and other commuters saw a double rainbow, but when she looked the other way, she saw four multi-colored beams of light, according to The New York Daily News. Soon after she posted it on Twitter, the photo went viral, getting its very own hashtag, #QuadrupleRainbow, on Twitter.
So, only Curtis and a select few people were lucky enough to see the wonder of the quadruple rainbow in person. The rest of us missed it. Let your jealousy rage on.
However, the beautiful thing about technology today is that if something awesome happens, someone usually has his or her smartphone on hand to capture it for all the world to see and share it later. Isn't that nice? Of course it is.
Here's the photo of the quadruple rainbow Curtis took in all its colorful, translucent glory.
Quadruple #Rainbow at #glencove ny @LIRR station Today will be 4 pots of #gold #lucky #chasetherainbow #aprilshowers pic.twitter.com/4YUUveJuy6
— Amanda Curtis (@amanda_curtis) April 21, 2015
This quadruple rainbow, which was the result of a rainstorm Monday night into early Tuesday morning, will make you recall that 2010 viral video where Paul Vasquez lost it over seeing a double rainbow outside his Yosemite, Calif. home, as it should. That video has more than 41 million views on YouTube at the time of this writing.
While double rainbows are actually pretty common, quadruple rainbows like the one Curtis caught on camera are rare. In fact, as USA Today points out, the first time a quadruple rainbow was caught on film was only in 2011, according to BBC News. This is because tertiary and quaternary rainbows tend to be much fainter.
Let's all enjoy Curtis' photo today, because it doesn't sound like we're going to see another one like this anytime soon.
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