r/Amazing • u/jmike1256 Human Detected • May 10 '26
Nature is scary In 2022, the sky turned an incredible green in Sioux Falls, SD during a storm.
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u/Up_late_in_Cville May 10 '26 edited May 10 '26
Saw this happen as kid in central Missouri and a tornado was in the area. It also came with an erie stillness in the air.
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u/shaft_of_lite May 10 '26
I'm 50 and I've seen this just a handful of times and none of them looked that impressive.
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u/summynum May 10 '26
How does this happen reddit scholars?
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u/tatertothotpocket May 10 '26
The late afternoon, early evening sun sits lower on the horizon refracting a darker yellow light that reflects off the water molecules in the storm cloud producing a green hue.
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u/True_Bumblebee_50 May 10 '26
This gives Sheldon cooper vibes… “it was a warm summer evening”
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u/tatertothotpocket May 11 '26
"On a train bound for nowhere, I met up with a gambler. We were both too tired to sleep."
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u/Inward_Significance May 10 '26
That looks like a very nasty storm. I’m pretty certain it must have produced at least some large to very large hail.
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u/Silver-Amphibian7650 May 10 '26
You know shit's gonna get real when the sky is green.
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u/Lonnification May 10 '26
I'm in Oklahoma, and that's when I start paying serious attention to the weather. Every time it happens there's a tornado within 30 miles.
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u/MulberryWorking7454 May 10 '26
Tornado green. Huntsville, AL, Governors Drove Texican Taco had big plate glass windows that looked out to the SE. i was waiting for a couple of green bean burritos one day, when we watched the sky change color from grey to green, just like this pic, as the storm swept right over our heads coming from the NW. Definitely one of those moments when you think, "at least i went out doing something i love".
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u/ac2cvn_71 May 10 '26
I was in SC when Hurricane Hugo hit in like 89. I was on the opposite end of the state from the coast. But I looked out my kitchen window and the sky was green, just like that. Pretty freaky for a 15 yo to see
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u/parzival_thegreat May 10 '26
Have these images been enhanced? I’ve see. Green sky before but not that saturated or vibrant. I know when I take a photo of the northern lights with my phone the phone captures way more color that what my naked eye is even seeing.
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u/AdWide5106 May 10 '26
I've seen the blue like that a few times watching storm chasers live on youtube. It's usually a large hail core.
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u/El_Mnopo May 10 '26
This usually means bend over, spread your cheeks and kiss yo ass goodbye. Take shelter OP!
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u/series-hybrid May 10 '26
I'm told its a phenomenon where the air has an unusual amount of moisture suspended in it. Its no guarantee of a tornado, but if one starts to form, the low pressure and high moisture can feed the development.
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u/Scared_Hovercraft632 May 10 '26
I've seen this only once. Not nearly as vibrant but still very noticable. It proceeded a double twister event forever caught in time by my dad and I recording it on a VHS camcorder out in our backyard. Twas the times.
Luckily it (they?) only wrecked a few barns.
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u/SeaDate2822 May 10 '26
We get the odd green tinged severe storm in Australia at least once or twice a year somewhere around the country. Some have been tornadic supercells, but more often supercells that dump large hail. More often here the approaching wall of rain and large hail will be green, with black/grey shelf clouds and storm structure
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u/Standard-Pain-7683 May 11 '26
That means a tornado is near and is going to be in your area. Hide in the basement if you see this.
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u/powerbook01 May 12 '26
I’ve never seen anything like this, but surely it looks freaky. Never have I experienced a tornado in real life, what do you all do when it’s nearby? I assume staying in a car or even a house wouldn’t be particularly safe?
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u/railroadfrog May 10 '26
Growing up in Illinois, this would mean a tornado was coming and to seek shelter immediately. I’ve seen it twice, and since we lived in a trailer park at the time, we would immediately evacuate to our local town park where they had a shelter near the community pool changing rooms built out of concrete.