Pic Of The Day #1606

Posted on September 10, 2021 | 2 Comments

Last night’s sunset at Old Mill Beach (Photo/Michelle Widmeier)

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2 responses to “Pic Of The Day #1606”

  1. Todd Ehrlich | September 10, 2021 at 9:47 pm |

    Anyone have any ideas why Thursday’s sunset was so orange? Our back yard was the same color.

    • Harris M. Falk | September 10, 2021 at 11:41 pm |

      At any sunset the light passes through more atmosphere which scatters shorter wavelengths of light (the BIV of ROYGBIV).
      Sunsets are orange and red because of that scattering; more of the ROY reaches your eyes than the BIV.
      The clouds are lit up by that same ROY light that made it through, reflecting it down to our eyes, so all the orange