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113 - Reading the Sky: What Storm Colors Are Telling You
Why does the sky turn green when a tornado is coming? Why do storm clouds go black? And what does a 19th-century volcanic eruption in Indonesia have to do with one of the most famous paintings in the world? In this episode of Buzz, Blossom & Squeak, we finish our spectrometry series by bringing it closest to home — reading the colors of the sky itself, and learning what they’re telling us.
The Blue Sky: Our Baseline
A clear blue sky is the result of Rayleigh scattering — a process identified by British physicist Lord Rayleigh in the 19th century. Sunlight traveling through the nitrogen and…
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