Spring is somewhere over the rainbow in Shropshire
The sun may not always shine in Shropshire – but sometimes there is light at the end of the rainbow.
This picture was captured by keen photographer Alan Heighway during an April shower near his home.
After weeks of unseasonal cold, the picture suggests spring has finally arrived, with temperatures in the county yesterday rising to a balmy 18C (64F).
Mr Heighway said: "It was like the rainbow had been handed to me – it looked like it was painted on. It's so unusual, it looks like you could drive down the street and drive straight through it.
"I've done photography for years and never managed to get anything like it before."
The rainbow was captured this week in West Street, St Georges, Telford, shortly after a sudden downpour.
April has settled into a more familiar pattern of sunshine and showers. The mercury is likely to hit 20C (68F) in parts of the south east today, although Shropshire will be cooler with the chance of rain.
Forecaster Sally Webb, of MeteoGroup, said: "A weather system will spread in a southerly direction tomorrow will leave things cooler on Friday, when temperatures will be more like 12C (54F).
"It will stay like that for the weekend and start to recover again on Monday and Tuesday."
Meanwhile, hay fever sufferers have had some good news after experts predicted a shorter hay fever season this summer due to cold weather delaying the release of birch pollen which, in an average year, starts to be emitted from around the start of April.
