Light scattering from smoke and volcanoes is the reason behind red skies
is enough to make California residents gasp, if not scream, like the agonized figure in Norwegian artist Edvard Munch’s iconic 1893 painting.and the blood-red sunset in Munch’s painting, “The Scream,” may have something in common.
The airborne ash particles caused “such vivid red sunsets that fire engines were called out in New York, Poughkeepsie, and New Haven to quench the apparent conflagration,” according to volcanologist Scott Rowland of the University of Hawaii, quoted on the NASA Science website.Like light-scattering particles from volcanic eruptions, smoke particles from California’s numerous fires are producing red skies.Only a small portion of the full electromagnetic spectrum is visible to the human eye.
In addition to scattering, smoke particles also absorb light, which plays a role in darkening the sky.has been detected in the atmosphere around the globe, much as particles from Krakatoa were seen in the skies of Europe and North America after the 1883 eruption. Smoke and haze from California fires were reported on the East Coast this week, carried there by the jet stream, and forecasters there suggested the smoke would keep temperatures a few degrees cooler. Smoke from U.S.
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