Interesting story . If not for the flag in the picture I would have thought it was just a purple filter on the camera. The explanation given is a poor one since it fails to explain why or how the blue wavelengths are getting blocked.
Because the hurricane is what is called a purple rager.
The scientific explanation is Global Warming. Obviously.
Photographer muttering to himself...”Damn, I left the white balance on ‘fluorescent’ AGAIN. When am I going to learn to stop doing that?”
Another not unusual occurrence.
I found a better explanation. You are seeing a blue sky mixed with red . The sun is low so it’s rays get red like they normally do near sunset but due to the moisture are getting reflected down and then mixxing with the red to create the purple we see . It’s one of the odd features of human vision that colors are seen in a kind of wheel when in fact light goes from radio waves all the way to gamma rays and we only see a tiny slice that our brain then curls up into a colored circle of light
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As sunlight shines down to Earth, most of the colors of the spectrum are able to reach the surface uninterrupted," Rautenkranz said in the video. "But the shorter wavelengths, blue and violet, are scattered in every direction. This light bounces from particle to particle until it eventually reaches your eyes. But the sky doesn't appear violet and blue because of our eyes' limitations."
Normally, she said, our eyes can only detect blue, because violet is the shortest wavelength of the color spectrum. But after the hurricane, the conditions were right for purple to make an appearance. The air was super-saturated, dew points were in the mid- and upper 70s, the sun was setting, and the hurricane's clouds hung low to the ground.
"This combination allowed our eyes to see (the sky's) true colors, since violet is there to begin with, we just don't usually get to see it," Rautenkrantz said. "The light was scattered around the moisture in the air, causing the magical purple color."
It’s a sign from Prince!
from the article:
“As sunlight shines down to Earth, most of the colors of the spectrum are able to reach the surface uninterrupted,” Rautenkranz said in the video. “But the shorter wavelengths, blue and violet, are scattered in every direction. This light bounces from particle to particle until it eventually reaches your eyes. But the sky doesn’t appear violet and blue because of our eyes’ limitations.”
Normally, she said, our eyes can only detect blue, because violet is the shortest wavelength of the color spectrum. But after the hurricane, the conditions were right for purple to make an appearance. The air was super-saturated, dew points were in the mid- and upper 70s, the sun was setting, and the hurricane’s clouds hung low to the ground.
“This combination allowed our eyes to see (the sky’s) true colors, since violet is there to begin with, we just don’t usually get to see it,” Rautenkrantz said.
It was a purple nurple from above.