Green indicates a significant hail core. It filters sunlight down to the ground in the green spectrum, like a prism.
Interesting!
And the inclusion of a significant hail core indicates horizontal cyclonic rotational action producing the larger hail stones which can more easily convert to vertical positioning and the dropping of a funnel cloud to become a tornado.
YES sir. Have disliked green fronted storms most of my 68 years.
Very cool.
Green is good
Nothing like driving your Dodge truck through a house 🏠 on the road
Sure hope no one was in that tumbling house 🏠
I was stationed at Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado in 1977. I was living at Peterson AFB at the time.
I noticed a green sky like this over Pikes Peak and the Rockies. I was a budding photographer with a new Nikon 35MM and drove out to the East, that is the rural high plains, to take pictures.
After a while, I noticed a WALL of hail coming at me, I tried to drive back thru it, and was clobbered by HUGE hailstones, softball size and up, none smaller than my fist. Totally destroyed my new truck—windshield busted, hood beaten like someone took a ball and pean to it, truck bed actually broken thru in a couple of spots.
I thought it would punch thru the roof and kill me. I stopped by a covered hayrack and tried to get over the barbed wire fence to it. The hail literally knocked me down and gave me a concussion. I actually came to under the truck. I guess I crawled under it but do not remember doing so. I had a huge lump on my head and was bleeding out of my left ear.
I drove back and went to the base clinic. They put me on quarters for three days.
Yup. See it often in Oklahoma. Learned very quickly it was time to go to the “fraidy hole” when the sky turned green.