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The sky in South Dakota was an eerie shade of green on Tuesday, before\u00a0a derecho brought winds nearing 100 MPH, per<\/a> National Weather Service Sioux Falls.\u00a0<\/p>\n A derecho is described<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration as a \u201cwidespread, long-lived wind storm associated with a band of rapidly moving showers or thunderstorms.\u201d The National Weather Service website<\/a> says a storm receives a derecho classification \u201cif the wind damage swath extends more than 240 miles (about 400 kilometers) and includes wind gusts of at least 58 mph (93 km\/h) or greater along most of its length.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n South Dakotans have become used to derechos after experiencing two such\u00a0occurrences\u00a0recently, but the green sky was\u00a0an unusual sight.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cI think it caught a lot of people\u2019s attention because the sky did have that very unique green color to it,\u201d said meteorologist Peter Rogers said<\/a>, per the New York Times<\/em>. \u201cBecause of the unique color that it did exhibit, I\u2019m guessing that it will probably be a topic of discussion for quite a long time.\u201d<\/p>\n It\u2019s unclear why exactly the sky turns green ahead of a severe weather, but Frank Gallagher, a meteorologist who now works at the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration,\u00a0told<\/a>\u00a0the Scientific American back in 2007 that\u00a0the dominant wavelength of light\u00a0in several severe thunderstorms is green. Researchers believe water droplets in the air that appear blue could be set against heavy red light, such as a sunset, and give off a green appearance.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n According<\/a> to\u00a0Argus Leader<\/em>,\u00a0the green skies gave way to a storm that brought three to five inches of rain and left nearly 30,000 people\u00a0without power by the time it was over around 5:30 p.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The sky in South Dakota was an eerie shade of green on Tuesday, before\u00a0a derecho brought winds nearing 100 MPH, per National Weather Service Sioux Falls.\u00a0 A derecho is described\u00a0by\u00a0the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration as a \u201cwidespread, long-lived wind storm associated with a band of rapidly moving showers or thunderstorms.\u201d The National Weather Service […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":131899,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111,270,5,6700,7,8,2744,6512,93,116,3341],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dfp-politics","category-dfp-politics-social","category-featured","category-green","category-music","category-news","category-sky","category-south-dakota","category-tier-one","category-videos","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131900,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131898\/revisions\/131900"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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