Scary Sky

hik Grandpa Bob its debris and junk mixed in the air as we got the same shade when we had all those wild fires two falls ago, combo of dust, smoke and debris in the air, gave every thing that eerie red orange glow. scary and weird too.

I used to live in Nebraska and we would get a lot of these severe storms with tornadoes and as the storms pass by it the sky becomes this same eerie orange color as your photo. It may be dust or the angle of the sun especially during the afternoon. But now im living in Florida and the sky rarely turns orange after a severe storm.

Hey there Grandpa Bob! Last night we had some mild storms go through our area but they looked really bad at first. Hubby and I were standing on our deck looking at the colors of the clouds and it looked like we were in for a torrential down pour and maybe a tornado but it just passed us with a few sprinkles and that was it, thank God! lol I can't say the same for last week though. We had thunder, lightening and torrential down pour! Both of our dry creek beds were flooding and gushing with water. I don't like those types of rain falls because the rain water just rolls off the ground and flows away instead of staying where it's needed. Hopefully none of us will see tornado's or hurricane's this year!

Hey Granpa Bob! That is one of the strangest colors I have ever seen! It reminds me of one of those creepy Halloween movie sets! I know that it has to do with the atmospheric pressure and all, but it is definitely something that I've never seen in any sky I've looked at! I do know that the weather has definitely gotten more and more bizzare here too! There was some fierce weather in Connecticut and Long Island that ripped huge trees out by their roots yesterday! This has been happening more often and more widespread and it is getting very scary and dangerous!

Gosh that really is odd, and I get why you say eerie, it just looks very unusual. I am also in the UK, and I have never seen anything like this... we have had some really black days, but nothing that would make the sky go this colour! I have no idea what could cause this after the storm, perhaps it could be dust but then for the whole sky to go this colour it would be really odd as that would be an awful lot of dust. Did any local newspapers run a story on it, perhaps they found an explanation for it!

wow i have no idea but its an amazing colour of sky, we never get anything like that here in the UK

it probably blew some dust and jump up in the air - I've seen things like that, but generally related to dust storms, however, if the storm was very windy and kind of localized, it can kick junk up and color the sky even if it rained in your area.

probably has to do with particles that got airbourne. light refraction and all that.

I don't know what would have made the sky look that color, but it is pretty weird. We have not had much rainfall here at all lately. It has been pretty humid and gross outside. Yesterday was much cooler for a change, so I was able to get the lawn mowed without feeling like I was going to die of heat stroke. I am glad to hear the the tornadoes did not get any closer to your house.

That's really eerie! I remember seeing the sky get green when a tornado was nearby but I've never seen it like that. I hope the tornados don't make it to your block!

Don't think I've ever seen that before. Almost as if you're on another planet with an orange sun. (Dawn reads too much science fiction lol)

There is so much beauty in nature. We can even find it in things that could be dangerous. Sometimes castrophe leaves something beautiful as well as deadly behind. We all see sometrhing different in stormy weather. For some, we see the beauty while others see the disaster. It is in the eye of the beholder.