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The sky appears blue to the human eye as the short waves of blue light are scattered more than the other colours in the spectrum, making the blue light more visible.

To understand why the sky is blue, we first need to understand a little bit about light. Although light from the Sun looks white, it is really made up of a spectrum of many different colours, as we can see when they are spread out in a rainbow. We can think of light as being a wave of energy

Why are clouds white? Clouds are white because light from the Sun is white. As light passes through a cloud, it interacts with the water droplets, which are much bigger than the atmospheric particles that exist in the sky. When sunlight reaches an atmospheric particle in the sky, blue light

the Customer Centre on: Tel: 0370 900 0100 Fax: 0370 900 5050 Email: [email protected] If you are outside the UK: Tel: +44 330 135 0000 Fax: +44 330 135 0050 Introduction A thunderstorm can be described as one or more sudden electrical discharges, manifested by a flash of light (lightning

(Grantham Institute, Imperial & University of Reading) and its membership is: • Professor Mat Collins (University of Exeter); • Professor Jim Hall (University of Oxford); • Dr Ed Hawkins (University of Reading); • Professor Gabi Hegerl (University of Edinburgh); • Dr Erik Kjellström (Rossby Centre

. Hazard warning No hazard warnings in force. t Friday and Saturday temperatures will be normal for this time of the year. Winds will be light across the region and generally variable. Friday Afternoon Friday Night Saturday Morning Saturday Afternoon Saturday Night Bungoma Chance of rains 21 max Clear

A lesson in colour To begin, we need to understand how we see colour. Light travels from the Sun and through the atmosphere in invisible waves. Light that looks white to us, is actually made up of many different colours of differing wavelengths. For example, blue has a short wavelength, while red

and the state of the weather, Royal Navy officers were ordered to use the scales below. Beaufort number General description Beaufort’s criterion 0 Calm Calm 1 Light air Just sufficient to give steerage way 2 Light breeze With which a well-conditioned man 1 to 2 knots 3 Gentle breeze of war, under all

The properties and behaviour of light, and how it interacts with droplets of water, give rise to one of nature's most colourful meteorological events - the rainbow.

, when the sun is exactly on the horizon, the majority of the time a smaller segment of an arc is seen. The effect of light hitting a raindrop Because water is denser than air, light passing from air to a raindrop at an angle slows and changes direction, in a process called refraction. Sunlight

Meteorological Director in Homa Bay, and Vincent Sakwa, the County Meteorological Director in Kakamega. Paul is an experienced maritime forecaster. Vincent is an experienced severe weather forecaster. The National Meteorological Centre in Nairobi should provide 24/7 support to these two forecasters to ensure

, affecting parts of the M6 and M60. Some COVID vaccination centres were closed due to snow in Newcastle and West Yorkshire on the 14th, with flooding to roads causing travel disruption; there were reports of cars stranded in flood water in Hertfordshire and flooded railway lines in Essex. Storm