Why Is the sky sometimes orange at night?

Answer 1

It is city lights reflected from low cloud cover. I live in a village and you can locate the neighbouring towns by their glow.

The orange colour is due to the sodium used in many street lights and has nothing to do with pollution ( except light pollution ).

I used to live on a small island in the Pacific and you could see the trace of the milky way across the sky at night.

Answer 2

Light pollution mainly from inner city/town lights which is why councils are systematically replacing streetlights that cast their illumination downward (so they say). I used to live in quite a rural area and if you looked up at night, one side was pitch black and the other half of the sky was orange from a town 45 miles away!

Answer 3

The orange is purely light pollution from cities and towns.

A good place to see this effect clearly is to go somewhere that has no street lighting for quite a distance, then look around to see the glows from populated areas.

If you ever get the opportunity, go somewhere like Arizona or Texas for a holiday and stay up til around 2 am.

Go outside and look up.


WOW! You will not believe your eyes!


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Answer 4

reflecting sunlight

or if you mean when the street lamps are on- well it's because there's so much pollution in the air- that the street lamps make the appearance of the sky orange like because the light from the street lamps also reflect on the atmosphere.

Answer 5

pollution
dust.
more pollution
more dust.
looking thru that, the sky appears orange.

Answer 6

If the sun has fully set, then it's likely light pollution bouncing off cloud cover.

Answer 7

because its pagans burning effegies of Wickermen on the Horizon, and the orange glow is the flames!

Answer 8

Red sky in the morning, shepherd's warning.
Red sky at night, shepherd's house on fire.

Answer 9

i think it has somthing to do with the water in the sky

Answer 10

pollution ?