Two photographs sent to the shop on the evening of Tuesday 22 September 2026: a rainbow over
the Computer Store at 977 Gilchrist Street, Wheatland, Wyoming, next door to the Platte County Senior
Outreach Center. The storefront sign and the "Yes we're open" card are both readable in the first frame.
What was happening
A thunderstorm crossed Wheatland airport at 17:50: 0.35 in of rain in about twenty minutes, a 37 mph gust,
and the temperature dropping from 75 °F to 55.6 °F. It was clearing by 18:30. Sunset was at 18:56, so both
frames were taken into a low sun about half an hour before it went down — the first at 18:25:25, the second
at 18:26:23, from further back, showing a double rainbow.
Weather from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet ASOS record for EAN (Wheatland) and the Open-Meteo archive.
The files
PhotoTakenPixelsBytesSHA-256
12026-09-22 18:25:251080×1440175,669
4ddf55388d9cce7f8c17c932bbccf452a2705c5ce4cfb9850038b99bb629ef08
22026-09-22 18:26:231080×144088,825
3cc2d3fd4e0cda1cbe5a4201637d942af5a7753b9cd54053a2f42a478e2e73d0
Both files are baseline JPEG, 1080×1440, with no EXIF location data. Source folder:
drive.google.com
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/19qS7VMm6x9iUWvi_Ve3EwNkRiMOIAp-U, posted on
X
https://x.com/VLEAnderson_/status/2112619724777681316.