"Because the sun is low on the horizon, sunlight passes through more air at sunset ... water droplets, and cloud formations" can influence the colors of the sky, too. Occasionally, pink and purple ...

As we approached sunset, some areas saw a pink and purple hued sky. Here’s why ... the light enters the water droplets and is bent, or spread out by passing through the water.

Several Kentuckians sent us their pics of the sky above them radiating a purple hue as the sun was setting, quite different than the sunset they're used to seeing.Most of the pictures we received ...

FORT WORTH, Texas — Orange, pinks, and purple clouds swirled during Tuesday's sunset in North ... from supercooled water droplets. They typically develop high in the sky -- about 20,000 feet.

People in Florida have been watching the skies as Hurricane Dorian lumbered toward the US East Coast and last night they got a bit of a surprise – a purple sunset ... as the sky outside her ...

Scattering affects the color of light coming from the sky, but the details are determined by the wavelength of the light and the size of the particle. The colors of the sunset result from a ...

It would actually appear purple except, Corfidi says, our eyes are more sensitive to blues than purples.) When the light hits the sky at an angle at sunset and sunrise the same process happens ...

But last night, people across Merseyside spotted a purple sky during sunset. ECHO photographer Colin Lane captured several stunning pictures showing the beautiful sky - an effect of Rayleigh ...

The sky above Greater Manchester took on a purple and pink hue on Thursday evening. Mancunians were baffled by the strange glow in the sky during sunset. The unusual colour of the clouds was ...