Green Sky/Derecho/Sioux Falls

[NancyM]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1544428266156597250

 

[Mike Smith]

I got interested in wx when I was five years old. That means I have been watching the sky for 67 years. I've never seen anything like that sky. Wow!

 

[DJ Holzhueter]

Some of the pictures coming out of this storm were incredible. And the hail! Oof!

 

[John Farley]

Like Mike, I had never seen anything like this. And we are the same age. The first picture I saw, I thought someone had doctored the color. Then I saw several more photos and a video with the same color. Now THAT is a green sky!

 

[JamesCaruso]

Wow! Some really cool images out there for this event, including this one:

Derecho turns skies green

As storms moved across the country Tuesday, people in Sioux Falls, South Dakota witnessed a rare sight – a green-tinged sky.

abcnews.go.com

I wasn’t even aware of this event, by this time of year I’m kind of in my “dormant mode” (except for local Philadelphia events)…

Take it either as a good thing to always be learning in this hobby, OR an indication that I am pretty much a moron whose knowledge does not support 25 years of chasing, but I didn’t realize green skies were caused by red light refracted through water droplets, I always assumed it was exclusively related to hail…

 

[Jamie H]

Thanks for sharing this it's incredible!

 

[John Farley]

Here is an interesting article on this derecho from the Washington Post:

Derecho turns sky green, sweeps through 5 states with 90 mph winds (msn.com)

 

[James K]

Some of the pic's I've seen from this are both amazing and beautiful.

 

[Brian OConnell]

Wow! Some really cool images out there for this event, including this one:

Derecho turns skies green

As storms moved across the country Tuesday, people in Sioux Falls, South Dakota witnessed a rare sight – a green-tinged sky.

abcnews.go.com

I wasn’t even aware of this event, by this time of year I’m kind of in my “dormant mode” (except for local Philadelphia events)…

Take it either as a good thing to always be learning in this hobby, OR an indication that I am pretty much a moron whose knowledge does not support 25 years of chasing, but I didn’t realize green skies were caused by red light refracted through water droplets, I always assumed it was exclusively related to hail…

green=hail is not exactly wrong either, because having enough water in the cloud to refract light that much implies high VIL values, and high VILs are associated with hail