Green?

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RML

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Lately I've been wondering about green skies. I'm not hinting at the elusive green flash that some people report to have seen just when the sun disappears behind the horizon. I'm really talking about green skies.

We've all seen and shot skies in many different colours: dark and light blues, yellows, oranges, reds, pinks, purples, greys, blacks and the odd filthy grey-yellow skies just before a thunderstorm.

But how about greens? I have never seen green skies, and I'm at a loss whether I haven't been paying attention or that there's a scientific explanation why green skies don't occur.

Does anyone have any ideas?
 
Well there is the Aurora which is often green.

But, I have actually seen green skies related to very sever micro burst weather ahead of a thunder storm. It is one of the phenomina related to great energy and tornadic activity in the atmosphere.
 
Just before a huge storm the sky/ clouds had a green cast to it. This happened a few years ago and I have not seen anything like it before or since. Sort of reminded me of a chlorine gas cloud. Someone had mentioned that it was similar to the sky appearance just before a Tornado. Maybe someone in Tornado Alley can comment.

Bob
 
Maybe not but seems there's a strong series of storms with hurricane winds and floodings in Denmark, Sweeden and Norway as well as some places in Great Britain, hope everybody is ok up there...

Usually green skies bring nothing good :) However the most scary one I've seen was a completely white one when I was driving through a huge rain storm some time ago. Looked like a heaven spot in the middle of hell.
 
We had those storms here too yesterday and today. Nothing to be fearful about. They happen every year, though usually in February. I went out today for some shooting: almost got wacked by whipping branches a few times, almost got blown into the river, and got some small broken-off branches on my head. I stayed away a bit from the big trees, just to avoid getting hit by bigger, heavier falling branches. But no roof tiles came off so the wind wasn't nearly as bad as some of the February storms we've had in the past 5 years. Perhaps at see these winds reach 10 or 12 Beaufort but over land (even here in the flat, open polder landscape of Holland, a couple of miles inland from the see) these winds have lost quite a bit of force, so they're only 7-9 Beaufort. I guess the Scandinavian and British coasts facing the Atlantic Ocean suffer the most. Things get rough there more often than on the Dutch coasts.
 
Rover

Thanks for the explanation and I would think it is a prelude to very severe weather. No Tornadoes were reported during that storm but plenty of uprooted trees here and areas of Northern Minnesota and Northwestern Ontario had large sections of blown down boreal forest. Micro bursts?

Bob
 
I've seen two tornadoes, and been close to a few major thunder storms so I can honestly say the sky was a shade of green I can't place both times we had the tornadoes. Greener than a turquoise, more like an aqua marine. Any time I see a sky looking green these days I look for the nearest cover.
 
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