Just watched a weird storm go through, and i was wondering what colours can lightning actually be?
2006-07-20 01:08:56 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Weather
the colors of light? white! but it can be reflective off what you're looking at with it, like the sky to make it look blue or purple, too.
2006-07-20 01:10:44 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you split white light through a prism you get all the colours in a rainbow.
Rainbows are caused because the rain acts like a prism as the light from the sun shines through it.
If you reverse the process and mix all the colours of the rainbow it actually makes white light.
Since all the colours are there in white light it is theoretically possible for lightening to show any of those colours if only for a brief moment!
2006-07-20 08:14:43 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Surely all colours of the spectrum, as white light is made of same. If you saw it in slow motion this would be more obvious.
2006-07-20 08:13:43 · answer #3 · answered by baroness 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Blue white purple orange and a sort of light blue. Maybe cyan is the color.
This is not a joke.
2006-07-20 08:10:32 · answer #4 · answered by carlos_18_37 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
White, yellow, blue, purple...I try not to get too close to the stuff!
2006-07-20 08:18:02 · answer #5 · answered by SouthernBelle 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
According to pilots flying over hurricanes...red & blue.
2006-07-20 08:13:42 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
blue and yellow and purple well.. most coloyrs actually if you look with a pair of binoculars you will see :P
2006-07-20 08:11:52 · answer #7 · answered by manda.garrett 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
usually clear yellow but it all depends on the background
2006-07-20 08:12:14 · answer #8 · answered by helpme1 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've seen lightening green and hot pink.
Vin
2006-07-20 09:03:29 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think blue, yellow, or white.
2006-07-20 08:10:56 · answer #10 · answered by DiMooch 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋