I have lived in Oklahoma for 35 years and see tornado weather every year. Common knowledge here that when in tornado storm weather, the outside looks eerily yellow. It isn’t a sunny yellow, but like a dark yellow, almost like a sunset. There’s nothing else like it. What is going on here?
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1) Storm clouds typically have a lot of water, as well as potentially hailstones, which can lead to blue, black, and green coloration.
2) Storm clouds have a tendency to kick up a lot of dust, which can lead to yellow and brown coloration.
3) Storms at dusk in the midwest will typically come from the west, meaning the setting sun will be behind them and the storm will get backlit from the red-orange light of the setting sun.
All of this together can lead to some *funky* coloration, particularly if the storm is violent enough to have a lot of water/dust suspended in the clouds, and thus a lot of surfaces for sunlight to scatter off of/be filtered through.
Shit ain’t real till the sky turns pale green, though.
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