Vancouver gifted with winter double rainbow [Video]

Those in Vancouver dreaming of a white Christmas might be disappointed to learn there’s no snow in store this season, but the weather gods did offer something else over the weekend as consolation.

The day before the winter solstice – the shortest, and thus darkest, day of the year – the skies were unusually bright and filled with vivid colour as a stark set of rainbows appeared.

Social media users throughout the region were quick to post their prized shots online. Some images showed a detailed rainbow with another, less vivid rainbow beside it, while others had shots of just the one, wide arc.

“It was a rainy day, but the clouds broke at sunset, so I stepped out to enjoy it,” said Laura Duhan-Kaplan, a Vancouver resident whose video of a thick, bright rainbow emerging from grey clouds garnered much attention online.

“When I turned the corner onto Main …