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In April 2021, a photograph was widely circulated on social media that supposedly showed a double rainbow arching over the U.S. Capitol. While many viewers were impressed with the natural symmetry of the photo (the rainbows appear to perfectly frame the building), others claimed that this image was obviously digitally manipulated: This is a genuine photograph that was taken by Carissa Bunge, a senior legislative assistant at the U.S. House of Representatives. While some viewers were skeptical of this image, there truly was a double rainbow over Washington, D.C., on the evening of April 11, 2021. Another amateur photographer, Instagram user Kendy Garden, posted a very similar image to their Instagram page: The Capitol Weather Gang, The Washington Post's D.C.-based weather account on Twitter, collected several other images of these rainbows around the capitol. Meteorologist Matthew Cappucci wrote in The Washington Post that the above-displayed rainbow was a supernumerary bow, which means that it had faint, secondary arches of color inside the inner rim of the primary rainbow. Cappucci writes: While these photos may be pretty stunning, rainbows over the Capitol aren't a very unusual sight. In the last year, rainbows in D.C. have made the news at least twice as they seemingly made symbolic appearances. For example, a rainbow was spotted as late civil rights leader John Lewis lying in state, and another rainbow was spotted on Election Day in November 2020.
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