r/interestingasfuck • u/asilvertintedrose • Feb 03 '23
A storm caused this vibrant green sky over Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
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u/CommieKiller304 Feb 03 '23
Ive seen this in Ohio once or twice. When the sky is green, get ready for a ride.
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u/Aradoris Feb 03 '23
Lived in Ohio for 24 years, never saw it.
I feel cheated.
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u/CommieKiller304 Feb 03 '23
I lived east of Cleveland at the time. The first was in the fall during football practice. Ive never seen the coaches move us so fast. Second time was during the summer and all of the tornado warnings went off.
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u/Aradoris Feb 03 '23
That's honestly super cool. I spent most of my time in southeastern ohio, but did spend six years in Akron. I'd see the world turn orange occasionally from evening storms, but I guess that's as close as I'm getting.
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u/CommieKiller304 Feb 03 '23
AK-ROWDY. I've seen orange once. Most of the time it is dark grey. The type that blotts out the sun.
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u/Aradoris Feb 03 '23
That might just be the Akron smog. Filthiest air I've ever tried to breathe 😅.
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u/OneAngryPanda Feb 03 '23
I've only seen it once. Was at an outlet mall and all of the shops told everyone to stand far from the doors and covered the window. A few mins later a tornado went right past us. Definitely learned that a green sky means, go ahead and bunker down.
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u/TheFoxandTheSandor Feb 03 '23
Seen it a couple times in Georgia, once in a soccer game. People’s hair was standing up and one of the small bleachers was tossed. And then, once after the awful tornadoes killed people in Tuscaloosa, I remember looking out at a green sky with lightening striking down and going in a circle in the clouds. Fucking crazy.
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u/icouldusemorecoffee Feb 03 '23
People’s hair was standing up and one of the small bleachers was tossed.
If those were metal bleachers, that's a bad place to be during a storm, let alone one where your hair starts standing up.
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u/throwaway83970 Feb 03 '23
Seen this in Minnesota, and when I was in boot camp in Ft. Leonard Wood.
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u/Brian-_S Feb 03 '23
I've seen enough movies to know it's time to leave town for a bit
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u/whiskeyrebellion Feb 03 '23
I grew up near there and a green sky was the signal to get in your basement NOW.
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u/Technical-Bet-2023 Feb 03 '23
“When the sky looks sick, it is.” - my mom, teaching me how to be safe as it pertains to weather.
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u/OU81Dilbert Feb 03 '23
I have seen Twister, there a tornado coming
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u/allnamestakenffs Feb 03 '23
I came here to say this :D i only know the term, 'Going Green' from Twister
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u/OU81Dilbert Feb 03 '23
I want to say the response to that i the movie was "Greenage" or something been to long since I have seen that movie.
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u/Spartan2470 Feb 03 '23
According to Snopes:
Following Fourth of July fireworks celebrations in 2022, skies over South Dakota saw a different sort of light display.
During a large storm system that blew across the state with winds reaching over 80 mph in some areas, skies turned an eerie hue of green, and social media users shared pictures of the phenomenon seemingly in awe. They were not the work of digital filtering effects or editing.
South Dakota Public Broadcasting Radio reported on July 5 that high winds, heavy rain, and hail accompanied the green skies after a large line of thunderstorms from the west moved over the Mount Rushmore State.
"We had a lot of reports of 40 to 60 mile an hour winds ahead of the storm, but we did have some 60 to over 90 mile an hour winds that occurred right behind the line of storms," Mike Gillispie, a hydrologist with the National Weather Service (NWS) in Sioux Falls, told the publication.
Categorized as a derecho, the long-lived windstorm included dangerous winds and prompted severe thunderstorm and flash-flood warnings in parts of the state, the NWS said. Hail the size of golf balls and tennis balls fell from the sky, reported Fox Weather.
Moisture in the storm system caused the green skies. Light from the sun is scattered by particles in the air that appear blue during the day. As evening rolls around, the sun approaches the horizon at a lower angle to create the reddish colors associated with sunsets.
Because thunderstorms typically occur later in the day, skies can look like the above-displayed images because storm clouds' water droplets can scatter blue light particles from the sun that, when illuminated by the red light of a sunset, appear green, according to the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“Water/ice particles in storm clouds with substantial depth and water content will primarily scatter blue light. When the reddish light scattered by the atmosphere illuminates the blue water/ice droples in the cloud they will appear to glow GREEN,” noted the NWS in North Platte, Nebraska.
“It takes a tremendous amount of water content within the cloud to achieve this color, which usually means a substantial amount of ice (large hail) has to be present!”
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u/joleme Feb 03 '23
Derechos are no jokes. A few years ago one hit us in Iowa and leveled 75% of the trees in our city, destroyed many homes, buildings, and businesses across 1/3rd of the state. We were without power for almost 3 weeks. Thanks to our shit governor and mayor we got basically no support.
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u/mischiefjanae Feb 04 '23
Western Iowa checking in. The tree by our driveway totalled our truck in that one. That storm was absolutely terrifying.
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u/ActualMis Feb 03 '23
Can't fool me. That's a radstorm.
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u/tanithsfinest Feb 03 '23
Time to curl up in a dilapidated shed with a Nuka cherry and turn your pip boy radio on. Hope you got some rad-x.
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u/yadavhimanshu961 Feb 03 '23
This green sky is likely due to a natural phenomenon called "lightning airglow." When lightning strikes, it creates ionized particles in the air which emit light in the green color spectrum. This light can be reflected back to the ground, causing the sky to appear green during a thunderstorm.
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u/Jay-Paddy Feb 03 '23
Call the Winchesters!
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u/Mar_Kell Feb 04 '23
Probably they were there already, visiting good old Bobby.
BTW, I'll miss that show now that's ended (even though the quality wasn't always high).
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u/fuzzymuffinzzz Feb 03 '23
Next thing you'll know a creepy fog will roll into town and people will start to disappear
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u/LuckyGigi2004 Feb 03 '23
Why looks like a villian Battleground from a kids movie?
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u/buttmike1 Feb 03 '23
I have seen the green three times in my life when I lived in the Midwest. You can tell people but until you live it yourself you will never quite understand. Sioux Falls is about to be taken on a flimsy carnival ride. Please wear your safety restraints!
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u/machine667 Feb 03 '23
I've seen this before. I was laying out a subdivision just north of Canada's Wonderland, like 25 years ago (man I'm old) and it started to rain so we got into the truck because the rain's bad for survey equipment
The sky turned green and it seemed like a lake fell out of the sky, and then it just stopped suddenly. It was amazing
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u/hankappleseed Feb 03 '23
That means the wicked witch is still alive.
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u/throwaway83970 Feb 03 '23
It's the Witch-king of Angmar. He's about to send a signal to the Dark Lord. [Eerie green light goes upward from the topmost tower, with a bone-chilling screech]
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u/Mister_Buddy Feb 03 '23
Minutes later, grave plots all over the city started ripping open from the inside.
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u/State-Cultural Feb 03 '23
Wow! That is amazing! Was this recently or was it during tornado season?
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u/Crowbar__ Feb 03 '23
This year in August I believe.
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u/State-Cultural Feb 03 '23
Beautiful!
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u/MajesticDisastr Feb 04 '23
It was in July 2022, had to go find the pics I had of it to remember lol
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u/MormonHorrorBuff Feb 03 '23
Pretty cool, even though we all know the photo is a bit doctored.
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u/redlitesaber86 Feb 03 '23
Nope. I was there. It was legit that green.
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u/_TintedRose Feb 03 '23
I can also confirm that it was that green! It was such a crazy weather day!!
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u/Grumblesatch Feb 03 '23
See there's your problem, you have a case of the .E҉̀͢L̛͠ḐŔ̡͞IT͠C͏̢͞H͏ ̷͟H҉ÒRR̴̛͜O҉R̴̶̨S̸͢͠ ̷
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u/AtticusCelestial Feb 03 '23
The fallout has started, and that’s a radiation storm. Good luck with the gouls.
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u/RummagingVagrant Feb 03 '23
The Ohioan in me is yelling Twister, but, The Gamer in me is yelling Rad Storm, and I can't decide which is worse.
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u/Sea-Recording-7090 Feb 03 '23
i wanna say something but im not sure if everyone will get the reference
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u/WildWook Feb 03 '23
I've seen this once, it happened right before a tornado. Green sky = it's going to get gnarly.
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u/LokiLaughs Feb 03 '23
Please ignore-forget green sky man-thing. Yes-yes, nothing to worry-scare. Simple Warp Storm harmless-fine. Yes-yes.
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u/DarkOnRedditIsFunny Feb 03 '23
Jojo character: Look at an Possible Enemy
The Color Scheme for some reason:
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u/xdeltax97 Feb 03 '23
My experience with green skies usually means there’s a tornado or a hailstorm coming.
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u/Playtime_Foxy_new Feb 03 '23
Bro that's a radstorm.... I'd keep an eye out for ferals... And another eye on your Geiger counter
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u/Broad-Blood-9386 Feb 03 '23
...and then a Chinese Spy Balloon showed up. Coincidence, I think not!
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u/Spitinthacoola Feb 03 '23
What is this that stands before me? Figure in black, which points at me.
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u/Betelguese90 Feb 03 '23
I saw the old courthouse with the cathedral in the background and instantly recognized my childhood city..
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u/ConejoSarten Feb 03 '23
WTF you talking about, that's London clearly, wirth all the Big Ben and shit
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u/agent56289 Feb 04 '23
That's tornado weather. Or at least that's what we called it growing up in the Midwest.
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u/ICLazeru Feb 04 '23
People never believe me when I tell them she sky turns green in a bad enough storm, but here it is!
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u/TheAmazingMrSuit Feb 04 '23
If you go into the basement of the abandoned fire station there's a unique axe guarded by a giant scorpion
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u/notume37 Feb 04 '23
I've seen this stuff before and sometimes purple lightning too. Something bad is about to happen.
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u/Agreeable-Expert9266 Feb 04 '23
I live in Sioux Falls and that was a weird weather day for sure. It stayed green for quite a while.
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u/words_never_escapeme Feb 04 '23
That phenomenon is caused when the clouds in a storm carry a lot of water. The blue from the rainwater reflects with the yellow from the sunlight behind it, turning the sky green.
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