Light on Snow by Anita Shreve. Generally, a supermoon appears 14% larger and 30% brighter than the average moon. The tiniest bit of light is 2X amplified and travels a longer distance. Lately, the skies seem brighter than usual.

The sun has gone down, and although the vultures are no longer walking on the ground around the camp, they are roosting for the night in a nearby tree in greater numbers. I'm in west virginia and noticed the same thing....never seen it so bright in the night sky...looks like sun rise and its 3am. This highly concentrated reflected light has longer wavelengths and this tilts it to the red spectrum. Page 1 of 2 - Why is my sky so bright? - posted in General Observing and Astronomy: I live in the dark sky city of Flagstaff, AZ, the 1st International Dark Sky City. the only answer i can think of here is that the fresh snow fall is reflecting a lot of light back up into the sky....but that must be some impressive reflections. The sunlight reaching us from low in the sky has passed through even more air than the sunlight reaching us from overhead. Why Does the Sky Turn Yellow Before a Storm? Why is the sky orange at night when it snows?

The moon will appear bigger and brighter than usual on Sunday as a ‘snow super moon’ lights up the sky.

The Pink/Light Red effect is a result of the light traveling from the sun as it passes though the Atmosphere and then on to the fresh snow . Hes standing in his room when the power goes out and . Scientists' best theory for why the sky sometimes changes to a yellow or greenish hue before a severe storm is that storm clouds of a certain thickness and water concentration act as a filter for the light that passes through them, according to The Guardian. I have a Sky Quality Meter and have been measuring the darkness over the last few days and it has been around 20.7. There is no moon. its really dark Pointing out the really, really obvious snow reflects light, it doesn't. Closer to the horizon, the sky fades to a lighter blue or white. This is why we see a blue sky most of the time. Blue is scattered more than other colors because it travels as shorter, smaller waves.