Double rainbow dazzles in South Mississippi sky amid fiery sunset

BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX) – A vivid double rainbow was spotted arcing across the South Mississippi sky Monday evening after a gloomy day of showers and thunderstorms. The rainbow was not the only spectacle. As the sun began to sink below the horizon, a brilliant burst of oranges, pinks and reds splashed up against the bottom on the cloud deck over South Mississippi resulting in a show-stopping sunset full of color and awe.

The double rainbow and colorful sunset came after a shelf cloud and mammatus clouds were spotted along the coast.

Along the leading edge of showers and thunderstorms Monday, a shelf cloud was spotted tracking slowly across the coast. Shelf clouds form on the leading edge of thunderstorms. They mark the dividing live between the warm, moist air ahead of the storm and the rain cooled air behind it. The cooler air behind the storm “scoops” up the warm moist air ahead of it. The air cools, condenses into a cloud and is molded into a “shelf” due to the motion of the storm.

After the storms cleared, the upper-level cloud deck remained over South Mississippi. Sinking air above the clouds formed “pouches” in the cloud deck over Biloxi known as mammatus clouds.

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