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Sierra Rainbow

An early season storm meets the light of a new day just after sunrise along the eastern Sierra Nevada mountains in central eastern California. The rain shadow effect of this incredible escarpment hugs the ridge line, but some rain manages to reach out into the valley. That rain falls into the fresh daylight, refracting into a partial rainbow right over the Alabama Hills. The granite wall of the Sierra Nevada rises some 10,000 feet here above the valley floor, reaching high into the stormy clouds.

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Uploaded on November 2, 2022
Taken on October 6, 2018