A humpback whale was videotaped blowing a rainbow recently of Newport Beach, California,
and the rare aerial footage is being circulated widely on social media and via TV network news. (Pay attention at the 40-second mark.)
These events are sometimes referred to as “rainblows,” and occur only when the lighting is right as whales exhale at the surface.
“It all has to do with the combination water droplets and the angle of the sun,” explained Alisa Schulman-Janiger, a California-based whale researcher, who provided the boat-based “rainblow” photo for the sake of comparison. “It does not by any means happen on every trip, but when the lighting is right it can happen again, and again, and again.”
Aerial footage of this event is rare, mostly because the widespread use of drones for whale photography is a fairly new phenomenon.
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