Storm causes weird green skies in South Dakota

"The green in this thing is insane! Taken in Sioux Falls South Dakota looking southwest," tweeted storm chaser Tanner Charles, who shared an image of a green sky caused by the storm.

South Dakota residents witnessed a rare phenomenon on Tuesday

The National Weather Service confirmed that a derecho passed through much of South Dakota as well as Minnesota and Iowa on Tuesday.

a reply to: ColeYounger

Now they know what it must be like to live on an alien planet.

Wonder what it was that turned the sky green, apparently they just don't know but have a theory that when the sky is red such as at sunset and there is a storm the water droplets in the sky can then cause this affect.

Interesting, disconcerting and has my thinking some form of air born spore, chemical release etc.

Reminds me of some vivid dreams I had as a kid but other than that never seen anything like it (outside of a fantasy science fiction world).

The last time I saw a green sky was when 2 tornadoes passed close by .

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I showed this to my nephew. He said that's what happens when Godzilla eats at Taco Bell.

originally posted by: Gothmog
The last time I saw a green sky was when 2 tornadoes passed close by .

I agree last time I saw green skys we had a tornado touchdown as well. Been through a few but only one was green.

The only time I ever recall seeing skies like that it wasn't tornadoes but rain so torrential that when we got to the town we were driving to, it had flash flooded the streets. It was the only time I can remember panicking because our car got flooded out and there was water sloshing in through the car doors. This was just overwhelmed regular streets, not regular flash flood zones. But the sky had that peculiar, eerie bottle/glass green look to them.

Didn't that huge but yet only g1 solar flair hit today?

Sorta like how the northern lights work

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Beautiful and eerie at the same time. I have never seen such a thing.

Personally experienced this before.

Everything had a weird green tint to it.

Also, had similar experiences with red and gold light as well.

The experience with each was "Ethereal".

Hard to describe.

I've seen that kind of thing as well. It's pretty cool. I wish stuff like this was more common. It would make the world feel a bit more magical lmao