On July 10th we had family in for a couple of days. My son, grandson, and I made a command decision after dinner that evening to head out locally to check out some convective action. We rolled north on U.S. Route 11 through Troutville and came upon this scene at the rear of a storm:

This was literally the brightest double rainbow I’ve ever seen. Given the orientation of the lowering sun and the precipitation it was actually a full semicircle but I couldn’t capture it all in one photo. As the storm moved away the rainbow filtered through a hail shaft, providing this followup sight:

Pretty awesome!