NEWSWIRE: Rikti attack Kansas City!
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Posted on: 2011-05-26 22:41 in Comic and Hero-Villain Culture
While awesome, that's also disturbing and creepy.
I know what a green sky means, and that is GREEN.
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Wow....that's scary stuff. You stay safe over there, you guys.
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I like to fly up high and look to see which way there are coming.But, those clouds...no way am I goin up in that sky.
Whoa... I experienced a green-sky storm one summer in high school. We were without power for a week afterwards. But in that instance, the sky was just slightly green-tinted.
This looks near-apocalyptic in strength! Batten down the hatches, and stay safe!
That should be submitted to Cracked's next edition of pictures you won't believe that aren't photoshopped.
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I guess the New York Islanders aren't moving there now.
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/ho...e_we_come.html
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I guess the New York Islanders aren't moving there now.
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How does that even work?
I've never seen something like that...
Anyone want to put on their science cap and explain this to the class?
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I saw a green sky once when I was in college. The college is up against the foothills and the student center/cafeteria looks out over the sacramento valley. Anyway I looked up as it got darker one day to see literal green clouds like that rolling in and forming a thunderstorm. It was odd but I've only seen that the one time.
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So I was in a green-sky storm when I lived down in Florida back somewhere around '90. Biggest storm I've been through in my life. Just a terrifying number of tornadoes and waterspouts throughout the Clearwater area that day.
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Originally Posted by Leo_G
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How does that even work? I've never seen something like that... Anyone want to put on their science cap and explain this to the class? |
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Originally Posted by Leo_G
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Being at the lower (longer wavelength) end of the visible spectrum, red and yellow light are absorbed by water droplets in a cloud. Blue and green are at the upper end (shorter wavelength) of the visible spectrum, and are scattered by water. Actually blue light is scattered by raindrop-sized water droplets, while green light is scattered by ice crystals. Thus, a cloud with a greenish tint to it has ice crystals at its upper reaches, which is an indicator of a strong thunderstorm.
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I've seen a few green clouds. Here they usually they indicate a strong chance of hail.
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Originally Posted by sleestack
Actually blue light is scattered by raindrop-sized water droplets, while green light is scattered by ice crystals. Thus, a cloud with a greenish tint to it has ice crystals at its upper reaches, which is an indicator of a strong thunderstorm.
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As long as there isn't purple lightning. That can't be good.
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The way I remember it, this occurs when a thundercloud with a very high density of condensed water droplets is illuminated by the sun while low on the horizon. The atmosphere scatters blue light preferentially: that is why the sky itself appears blue. Red and yellow light from the sun isn't as scattered, so most of it comes straight at us from the sun. The only light coming from other directions in the sky must have ping-ponged around from the sun through the atoms in the atmosphere and then finally to our eyes.|
Originally Posted by sleestack
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Being at the lower (longer wavelength) end of the visible spectrum, red and yellow light are absorbed by water droplets in a cloud. Blue and green are at the upper end (shorter wavelength) of the visible spectrum, and are scattered by water. Actually blue light is scattered by raindrop-sized water droplets, while green light is scattered by ice crystals. Thus, a cloud with a greenish tint to it has ice crystals at its upper reaches, which is an indicator of a strong thunderstorm. |
As the light from the sun which is blue-depleted backlights a thundercloud that has a lot of condensed water droplets, the water droplets begin absorbing red light preferentially. That's why the ocean looks blue: ironically for the opposite reason: water absorbs red light, so only the blue light survives to reflect back up through the water and to our eyes.
So blue-depleted light from the sun passes through the cloud and becomes red-depleted. This makes the light that makes it out of the cloud greenish.
To have enough water suspended in the clouds to do this might require strong updrafts which keep water suspended and/or huge moisture content, which might explain why the phenomenon is linked to especially powerful storms.
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The links I provide give a more scientific survey of various theories and a more exhaustive accounting of whether those clouds truly do have more ice in them or are more conducive to tornadoes.
Pro-tip: Most clouds *do* have ice crystals in them, and yet, aren't green.
Pro-tip#2: Tornadoes may be linked to green clouds not because green clouds lead to tornadoes but tornadoes form in the same environment as green clouds. Therefore, it may not be that green clouds *cause* tornadoes, but some other even causes green clouds and tornadoes, thus a correlation, but not hard cause-and-effect.
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Which explains why the thunderstorm that followed seeing those green clouds was particularly memorable for heavy rain. Makes sense.
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
To have enough water suspended in the clouds to do this might require strong updrafts which keep water suspended and/or huge moisture content, which might explain why the phenomenon is linked to especially powerful storms.
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Growing up in Ohio, I am all too familiar with the sickly green sky heralding a tornado's approach. In my 8+7/12 years in NH, I've only seen it once, thank god.
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Originally Posted by Le Blanc
You saw it here first folks. God bless all my friends in the mid-west, and stay safe. This is an actual pic taken in KC. One of the weathermen there took it.
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Looking at the rest of the picture, I'm thinking all the colors have been enhanced a bit via Photoshop work. I'm sure the clouds were green, but not that green, just as the buildings were their color but not that much their color.
All that said, I'd be taking a radio/paper mish (preferably one in a cave) and waiting until I saw the red message telling me it's all blown over. 
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Having actually seen green clouds myself, I'll have to say no I expect the photo is accurate.
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Originally Posted by Clave_Dark_5
Looking at the rest of the picture, I'm thinking all the colors have been enhanced a bit via Photoshop work. I'm sure the clouds were green, but not that green, just as the buildings were their color but not that much their color.
All that said, I'd be taking a radio/paper mish (preferably one in a cave) and waiting until I saw the red message telling me it's all blown over. |
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It doesn't look shopped to me, the ambiant green light from the sky is saturating the colors of the buildings.
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Originally Posted by Clave_Dark_5
Looking at the rest of the picture, I'm thinking all the colors have been enhanced a bit via Photoshop work. I'm sure the clouds were green, but not that green, just as the buildings were their color but not that much their color.
All that said, I'd be taking a radio/paper mish (preferably one in a cave) and waiting until I saw the red message telling me it's all blown over. |
You saw it here first folks. God bless all my friends in the mid-west, and stay safe. This is an actual pic taken in KC. One of the weathermen there took it.
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