iN PHOTOS: Soggy summer days bring rainbows to Kamloops, Okanagan

Wet days and a mixed bag of weather in Kamloops and the Okanagan this summer have created several opportunities to see rainbows, and even two at a time.

Rainbows appear when sunlight bounces around water droplets, reflects off the backs of the droplets and returns back toward us. Sunlight is made of different wavelengths of light that break into an array of colours, according to the Old Farmers Almanac.

On several days this summer a double rainbow has appeared, which occurs when sunlight reflects off each droplet twice. 

Rainbows are rare in the winter when water turns to ice or snow, and on rainy summer days they add a joyful pop of colour to the sky.