when its raining at night why do the street lights shine alot brighter as tho a fire is burning?
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Refraction\nAs the light enters the water from the air, it bends\nthe bent light shows a kind of corona around the bulb\n\nin air, the light doesn't bend, so you just see the light inside the bulb
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Because light travels faster than sound, so you see the lightning and then hear the thunder.
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A red sky as night means a freshly breaking storm moving out of the area and clear weather behind it, Red in the morning indicates an approaching storm. Storms cause extremely rough water and bad conditions.
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The human brain has already lit up the city.  It now has to figure out how to keep the lights on with the cost of energy going through the roof.\n\nMaybe wind or solar power...
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Same principle as neon lighting.  With a neon light you have a gas with current passing through it causing it to emit off a light.  In this case it sounds like a concentration of whatever the specific gas happened to be in the air at the lightning strike, and what you saw was the gas emitting it's light.  Anyone happen to know what gas gives off green light in neon lights?
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Because of the prevailing winds at that particular latitude. As for why they move faster it's basic physics. If you shine a flashlight, it is traveling the speed of light. If you use the headlights on your car, the light is traveling at the speed of light PLUS the speed of the car.
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Dusk. It's just so different... poetic. Specially if it's humid or rainy.\nThere's nothing as wonderful as arriving to your house after a  hard, long day, just to be able to sit there to read a book, see the slow dissapearance of daylight, and hear the sounds of rainfall and nature.
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Because the lights are off!\n\nhttp://www.total-knowledge.com/~willyblues/
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There are chemicals in the air and its just how the light might have been bent. There are tons of different atmospheric problems that could have caused that.
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The stars are out all the time it's just that during the hours of daylight it's too bright to see them.  There will be stars every night, whether cloud obscures them or not is a different matter.
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The arc is what YOU see. the truth is that it is a complete circle obscured by the horizon. The colors are not created by the raindrops (moisture droplets would be more accurate) but by the angle the light is shining through them. it is a relative thing as well meaning the view or lack of depends on your perspective. No matter how scientifically I describe this; a rainbow is an amazing thing and I hope you enjoy every one you see!
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A rainbow (also known as a rainboner) is an optical and meteorological phenomenon that causes a nearly continuous spectrum of light to appear in the sky when the sun shines onto falling rain. It is a multicoloured arc with red on the outside and violet on the inside. The full sequence of colours is red, orange, yellow, green, blue and indigo violet. An easy way to remeber the colors is the name Roy G Biv
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You can see a rainbow when the light is behind you.  It's reflected by the raindrops.  Light of a particular colour is refected by the raindrops that are at the correct angle between the straight line from the sun to the raindrop and the straight line from the raindrop to your eye.  The raindrops at that angle are in a circle, although of course there aren't any under the ground so you only see an arc.  If you're in a plane and the sun and a raincloud are in the right places, sometimes it's possible to see the whole circle.
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It looks like lights hitting water and water dripping on it.\n\nGood album, BTW.
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Yes, rain dripping down the pane of the window, the smell of water floating in the night air...outside hangs the crescent moon with the stars in a magnificent setting around it, as a cloud approaches, and conceals the lunar display...
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because the roads are slippery when wet and some tires don't work well on wet roads,especially worn out ones. \nplus the glares of headlights make it harder for drivers to see the road clearly.
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because the blue lights can be seen in the fog, or heavy rain   as the red can be seen at greater distances and red is the sign of there is trouble here please help!   hope this helps    love to hear what other officers were told!   lol.....