The same light scattering that makes our daytime sky blue intensifies during smoke events, as larger particles allow the ...

Smoke from wildfires has caused the sun to appear more vibrantly reddish orange to people nationwide over the years. Just ...

If the sky were filled with dust particles that were each significantly wider than the largest wavelength of visible light—i.e., if each one were much more than 750 nanometers wide—then the ...

Correction, Sept. 9, 2020: This article originally misstated that red and orange have the shortest wavelengths and that smoke blocks longer wavelength colors.

Rain began falling mid morning in the greater Nashville area and just after 7 a.m. the sky turned orange then slowly to a shade of green. At one one point it turned yellow.

Capital Weather Gang Phenomenal sunset boasts red sky, lightning and rainbows — all at once Photos of a magnificent D.C.-area sunset and lightning that followed Updated July 12, 2022 2 min ...