Colour of the sky

[bluenosey]

A weird orangey grey in the Midlands.

Apparently due to dust blown up from the Sahara by Hurrican Ophelia.

All a bit sci fi/apocalyptic

[Zimmerman]

Thank %#^* for that.

Thought my brew had been spiked!

Hard to say what colour it is (if any) but there is a weirdness outside (I'm in Cheshire) and a by product seems to be a that any colour there is (with all the autumnal colours) are REALLY vivid.

I assumed something was going on to affect the light frequencies thus affecting the colour of all the trees and plants.

[bloggie]

I guess there seems to be something obscuring the clouds in West Yorkshire. Must be the same thing.

[bloggie]

No Dorothy's house being swept up by the wind though.

[unc.si.]

Thought this was going to be something interesting about how colour is simply something invented inside your head to make sense of the different frequencies of light reflected from different objects, and what you see as Orange I may well see completely differently (but of course still call Orange because its the same light frequency despite what I see in my minds eye). Colour in itself doesn't really exist.

Anyway, yes -sky is a bit of a funny colour here as well. Hope Ireland doesn't rue Ophelia's passing.

[bloggie]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_optics

[murf]

The sun was a vivid red in the tiny bit of blue sky this morning when it briefly appeared from the greyness. Totally calm at the time.

Then the sun came out later in a mostly blue sky before the wind started. Hatches battened.

[bloggie]

Looks like the storm's going to cover the whole of the UK over a week according to this animation plus they've closed the schools tomorrow in Ireland so England may follow suit later if it seems iminent:
http://www.express.co.uk/news/weather/8 ... Ireland-UK