But sometimes the sky can take on a green hue when just the right conditions are happening within a storm. It involves the scattering of light! ... such as red and yellow, to pass through.

It is a glow-in-the-dark night sky too, colored a mix of green, yellow, and red. Its colors result from scattered sunlight, oxygen, and sodium from shooting stars.

Why is the sky green or yellow during a storm? The visible light spectrum is “the segment of the electromagnetic spectrum that the human eye can view,” according to NASA.

A News5 viewer recently reached out asking us about what turns the sky green ahead of a thunderstorm. If you've do see a green sky, you know they're associated with very intense thunderstorms.

MOLINE, Ill. — Tuesday night, July 5, a derecho made its way through Iowa. Before the derecho reached the Quad Cities area, it traveled through South Dakota. There, it created a green ...

Rain began falling mid morning in the greater Nashville area and just after 7 a.m. the sky turned orange then slowly to a shade of green. At one one point it turned yellow.