why is the sky red some mornings and evenings?

Question

red sky at night sheperds delight
red sky in morning sheperds warning
what does it all mean ????

Answer 1

The sky is blue partly because air scatters short-wavelength light in preference to longer wavelengths.
Where the sunlight is nearly tangent to the Earth's surface, the light's path through the atmosphere is so long that much of the blue and even yellow light is scattered out, leaving the sun rays and the clouds it illuminates red, at sunrise and sunset.

so

An old weather predicting adage rhythmically states:

Red sky at night, Sailors' delight.
Red sky in morning, Sailors take warning.

Humidity in the air is indicated by red skies at sunset-- red sky at night-- or, at sunrise-- red sky in morning. The forming raindrops scatter the short-wavelength blue light so that only the long-wavelength red light reaches the observer.

Answer 2

Well, I'd never heard that saying with the word "shepherds" in it, I learned it with the word "sailors."

Regardless, I remember MANY years ago, learning in school that the red sky is an atmospheric indicator of moisture in the air or something, that long before meteorology was used by mankind to foretell the weather.

I have paid attention, and it is, 99 percent of the time, still an accurate way of knowing what's coming. If the sky is red at night, it's very often going to be a nice day tomorrow, and when it's red in the morning, look for a storm.

Don't know all the details as to why, but I bet somebody will get you enough technical info to explain it. LOL.

Answer 3

Sorry, but just clipped this answer, because it's easier than paraphrasing:

Before the advent of modern meteorology, explorers and settlers of North America developed rules of thumb for the weather based on common observations. One of the most famous – and sometimes true – is:


Red sky by morning,
sailor take warning.
Red sky at night,
sailor's delight.

The rhyme works in most of the United States where storms generally move from west to east. The "red", which refers to the sky overhead, is caused by the sunlight reflecting off clouds.

For a red sky in the morning, the eastern horizon has to be clear while clouds are moving in from the west. Since most storms come from the west, a storm is probably heading your direction.

For a red sky at night, clouds have to have moved away from the western horizon - heading east. With the storm moving east, clear skies are coming your way.

There is an important covet to the Red sky in the morning proverb. The poem generally only applies when a storm is on the way. Red skies can be caused by non-storm clouds. Also this rhyme can't predict thunderstorms that develop in an afternoon when the morning has been clear ...

Answer 4

Far on the horizon, to the West, it is daylight.
The distant clouds and dust create a diffuse white glow (Mie scattering) with all wavelengths of light.

As the daylight travels east toward your eye, the blue hues are scattered toward to ground (Rayleigh scattering).

Sun rays have to traverse long distances through the dense parts of the atmosphere until they reach the eye of the observer with the sun close to or even below the horizon. The traversed layer of the atmosphere is more than 30 times longer compared to the sun standing directly above the observer.

The violets and blues are lost (they make the sky blue to the West of you). The light you see is missing the violets and blues... leaving you with various shades of yellows, reds, aven purples.

Answer 5

Im no longer particular.. have you ever heard, pink Sky at evening Sailors delight, pink Sky in Morning Sailors take caution.. around the following if the sky is pink at evening it potential the subsequent day is going to be warm warm warm !!!

Answer 6

Oh for God's sake.

If the sky has a red tinge in the evening, it will be a nice day the following day.

If, however, it has a red tinge in the morning, it will rain that day.

Why?

Because an old wife said it would.

Answer 7

Cause I paint it red when I get p*ssed. And when I get p*ssed in the morning, I spend the whole day killin people, and shepherds,... and sheep too. But at night, the infra-red light produced as a result heats up the cold shepherds and they have a nice warm cozy nap, waiting for me to devour upon them and their stupid sheep. Of course, nobody lives to tell about the horrors the next day, so that's why those ignorant fools happily yearn for another red night, tainted in blood...

Answer 8

it means red sky in DA morning means Der is goin to b a storm 'n' red sky @night means its goin 2 b a great Day da nxt day , Ne way put a long story short in the old times dat is how shepherds predicted Wat DA weather was gonna b like ,so they new whether 2 put Der sheep indoors or let Dem stay 'n' graze in DA sun.

OKAY SORTED luv sugar2sweetshoes


P.S ur really cute

Answer 9

the sun rising in the morning and setting in the evening

Answer 10

The sky is feminine and you know how we women love to change our appearance.