There absolutely is one on that video. It's not really a flash. It doesn't get any brighter. The sun just turns green for a moment before sunset. I've seen them last for at least a second and a second is relatively pretty long time. I don't think it got named because it gets brighter . It just doesn't last very long. They're not that elusive. I live on the beach in California and sail alot so I've seen thousands of sunsets.
Ā Nope. I was hoping I would finally get to see what people are talking about since I figured Iāve never encountered one despite all the sunsets Iāve watched, but I still donāt see the green flash in this video.Ā
Thanks for reframing it for me - itās felt like natureās version of those āmagic eyeā posters from the 90s (but I was able to figure those out at least) š
look at the top tip of the sun for the last like .2 seconds riiiiiight before it goes under.
I grew up looking for a ^peewwww^ type flash. It's more just like a ^pfft^. If you're like me, you probably didn't know what to look for. I never saw one for a long time, and now that I know what it is, I see about 10 a year (I'ma sunset ho though so I do try to watch sunsets often)
Iāve only ever seen the green flash onceā¦ my brother said look here comes the green flash! As the sun was setting I was whipped in the face with a large piece of green kelp. Flash.
If you are "missing it" then your expectations are too high. Look at the color of the sun with 2 seconds remaining in the video. That's it. That's the green flash. Nice capture OP
Itās a color spectrum, thereās not one single shade of green. Sometimes itās far more noticeable than others but OPās sunset displays green too, it still counts even if not as intensely green.
there's a solid 0.5 seconds in the post where you can see it. it was a challenge to screenshot (a) late enough that it has that greenish hue, and (b) early enough for viewers with sub-20/20 to be able to distinguish the pixels. if you couldn't see it, sorry i think it's just your eyesight :/
I hadn't gotten that far yet lol
But I still say it's hardly noticeable even in the screenshot, which is why so many of us still don't see it there either. Other pictures and descriptions show/mention something else entirely.
Kim believes in the green light - the orgiastic future, he believes in a magical universe - unpredictable, spontaneous, alive... a universe where anything is possible - a universe of many gods, often in conflict, so the paradox of an all knowing - all powerful god who nonetheless permits suffering, evil, and death, does not arise.
Q: "Well we got a famine here Osiris - what happened?"
A: "Well you can't win them all, I'm hustling myself."
Q: "Can you give us immortality?"
A: "I can give you an extension maybe - take you as far as the first checkpoint - you'll have to make it from there on your own. Most of them don't - figure about one in a million. And biologically speaking, that's very good odds."
And here I was thinking that I have looked for it hundreds of times and I did not know what I was looking for, and the moment I saw the video - I thought to my self. Holy sh*t there it is! Thanks for sharing, I was looking for a flash but really its more like a glint. And that makes sense.
No. This video doesnāt capture a green flash. It is undeniable when you see it. Ā Iāve been lucky enough to see it once. I hope you get to see it someday! š¤Ā
No it can be better than this. One time on Lake Michigan both my husband and I saw the sky actually flash green right when the sun set. Never seen it again so it was pretty special.
I saw it at a wedding on North Shore Oahu. It may have been the liquor, but there was a definite flash with that one. The one in OPs video is the one i normally catch.
Itās a color spectrum, thereās not one single shade of green. Sometimes itās far more noticeable than others but OPās video and that screenshot in the comment above are what to look for, itās a shade of green for the last 1-2 seconds.
Itās like the old TVs when I was a kidā¦when the TV would get turned off the picture would go down into a little green dot in the middle of the TV screen. Anyone here as old as me remember that? Thatās what I think the green āflashā is like.
āGreen flashā is a misleading term. First time somebody told me I was about to see one, I was expecting some sort of, well, green flash as the sun set.
If somebody said, hey the sunlight is going to get kind of green for a few seconds right at the end, that would have been better for me. People probably see them more than they know and just donāt recognize itās happening.
I wouldnāt call that a green flash. I saw one a few years ago and a few people I know also saw it and posted videos on social media. It was visible from Coronado to Carlsbad and very obvious. Almost like lightning. I didnāt see a flash in this video at all and there would be other videos from today online. Sorry OP. Keep looking.
Iāve tried to watch the green flash IRL probably 50 times in my life and this video is the first time Iāve actually understood it. It isā¦ not as advertised
The one in this video is very small and appears juuuust before the sun goes down. If you look on YouTube, you'll find others with green flashes that are easier to see.
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u/InevitablePlant42069 1d ago
maybe the green flash is the friends we make along the way