'I haven't even lived here for a year what does this mean??' wrote the Reddit user who posted the picture.
"This means even more blue light is scattered away than normal. With all the blue scattered away, the sun acts kind of like a red or orange flashlight shining on the clouds, making them look orange or red or pink."
The idea that a red sky forewarns of an oncoming storm dates back hundreds of years, even being mentioned in the Bible, in"When it is evening, you say, 'It will be fair weather; for the sky is red.' And in the morning, 'It will be stormy today, for the sky is red and threatening.'" A folk saying"red sky in the morning, sailor's warning, red sky at night, sailor's delight" claims that a dawn red sky means a storm will occur during the day.
This is also due to the scattering of light, but it also has to do with the direction of the sun's movement across the sky, and the direction that"The other part of that story is that storms tend to travel west to east ," Jeffrey R. French, an assistant professor of atmospheric science at the University of Wyoming, told."In the morning, the sun is in the east and reddish-illuminated clouds will be in the west.
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