An extremely brilliant firery
red "sunset" or "sunrise" , of unusual intensity. Usually illuminating the under portions of clouds and especially storm clouds or
smoke from wild fires; where high levels of moisture or
dust particles are present in the atmosphere, giving the appearance of a firey red sunrise or sunset. This is caused by sunlight that travels through more of the atmosphere during sunset, causing shorter wavelength blue light to scatter away, leaving longer wavelength
red and yellow light to reach our eyes. This process is called Rayleigh scattering, which occurs when light scatters off of gas molecules and other particles (such as
water droplets or
dust) in the atmosphere. When this happens and clouds are present, depending on conditions the light can reflect or refract and explode in a brilliant firey array of pastel colors giving off all shades of
red, orange and yellow light. When these conditions are extreme, some storm chasers and photographers refer to this as "Ruth's Fire" , or a "Ruthy's Fire" Sunset or Sunrise. Both terms are
valid and used. Defintion 2. Ruth's Fire is any extreme
red spectrum or red shift releigh scattering.
Defintion of Ruth's Fire/ Ruthy's Fire is any
sun set or
sun rise of "extremely"' vivid and brilliant firey colors; associated usually with clouds along the horizon and especially storm clouds while the sun is at its lowest point.
I just photographed a Ruthy's Fire Sunset. After the
storm passed there was a brilliant Ruthy's Fire sunset. Look at the
Ruth's Fire Sunrise. The storm clouds gave way to a Ruth's Fire Sunset. This morning I saw a Ruth's Fire Sunrise. The most brilliant, breath taking sunset photography are of Ruth's Fire susets/sunrises. Oklahoma and
Kansas are famous for their bright red Ruth's Fire sunsets.
