By Randall Munroe According to popular lore, you can predict the weather based on sky color. The saying typically goes, “Red sky at night, sailor’s delight. Red sky at morning, sailors take ...

Winter mornings are hard, the pitch-black sky making it difficult to wake up and start your day. But when the sun finally comes up, have you noticed that the sky is often tinged pink or red?

Why would a cloud of orange dust turn the sky pink, red, and yellow ... started out orange but eventually transitioned to brown or black as vegetation sprang up in the fertile clay and composted ...

The “red sky” proverb has endured across cultures for centuries, and modern science can explain why this is so. The Sun is low on the horizon at sunrise and sunset. At these times of the day ...

And when everything looks black from space ... we see the sky blue. Why does the sky look red at sunrise and sunset? During sunrise and sunset, the sun's rays have to travel a longer distance ...

SO WHAT YOU’RE GETTING IS KIND OF THAT REFLECTION OFF OF THOSE CLOUDS. AND THIS IS THE REASON THEY DO SAY RED SKY IN THE MORNING. SAILORS TAKE WARNING USUALLY KIND OF INFERS THE SYSTEM MOVING IN.