West Virginia skies are red?, page 2

reply to post by Drunkenparrot

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LOL I think it was Confucius who said "He who is drowned is not troubled by the rain."

sorry, not being facetious here just a little whimsical. It doesn't mean to off yourself, but to totally immerse yourself in whatever you do in case some might think otherwise.

reply to post by crazydaisy

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Sounds like a bad storm. Did you have any wind damage to your place?

reply to post by rickymouse

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We had lots of large branches down and lost some shingles on
the roof of the garage. We were lucky!

Oh yea, we lost the picnic table, broken legs.

reply to post by PurpleChiten

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Don't let the royal purple go to your head. Maybe I'm a little late on my warning

Originally posted by rickymouse
reply to post by PurpleChiten

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Don't let the royal purple go to your head. Maybe I'm a little late on my warning

It's from my head all the way down to my tailfeathers!!

reply to post by crazydaisy

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I still need to get a gallon of tar for emergency prep. I have enough wood here to cover the windows if needed. The place I'm storing it will probably get sucked up by a twister.

reply to post by marsoto

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thank you

Wife just got off the phone with her friend in WV and while the storm has passed according to weather channel radar power is out and they are going to bed early. I guess in the daylight more info about damage will come out but from what I heard it sounded really bad.

The weather will flare up again for WV around 4PM tomorrow with isolated t-storms so I guess anyone who was in the path of this one should keep a heads up on developing conditions tomorrow as well.

Thanks for the links guys and gals. Was a moment of awe there that had me wondering

reply to post by iforget

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no the clouds themselves were purple and i mean it was nothing like this. it was as if u took a crayon and painted white clouds with light purple paint. i have seen many sunsets and sunrises and this was the first time i ever saw the the clouds like this.

reply to post by sp1r1tu4l33

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It's something called Rayleigh Scattering (which is also why the sky is blue). With the increased water vapor forming the clouds (water being a polar molecule), the refraction of the light produces a purple hue. Of course with the extreme temperatures, additional particles in the atmosphere most likely from the massive fires to the west and other factors, the purple looks more extreme then what we're accustomed to. The water droplets are larger since the dust and ash particles are larger and they aren't as "packed together" so we get more sunlight coming through than we normally do with the dark gray clouds associated with thunderstorms, giving us the purple hue instead of just gray due to the sunlight being more "blocked" by the closeness of the molecules in the dark gray clouds.

I took a couple of pics earlier, before the storm and then the sunset after. It was just a pretty bad line of thunderstorms that rolled through and finally cleared right at sunset. The sky was a brilliant pink and purple but nothing abnormal in my opinion. Excuse the pics as they were the best i could get using my phone and I hope this works because its been a good while since I posted any images here!

Clouds before the storm

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Sunset after

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