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In 1893, Edvard Munch recalled that he had been out for a walk at sunset when suddenly the setting sunlight turned the clouds "a blood red". He sensed an "infinite scream passing through nature".
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"The sky turned blood red – I paused, feeling exhausted, & leaned on the fence – there was blood & tongues of fire above the blue-black fjord and the city... I stood there trembling with anxiety – and I sensed an infinite scream passing through nature."
–Munch
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–Munch
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On 19 May 1780, darkness enveloped New England. The sky turned red. Some people believed it was the end of the world. It was so dark that a person could not see their hand held a few inches before their eyes & the sky could not be distinguished from the earth.
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The darkness extended over New England. From about the first of May 1780, great tracts of forest along Lake Champlain, down to Ticonderoga, were on fire. The smoke from the massive forest fires is believed to be the cause of "The Dark Day".
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In Novgorod, 1430 CE, there was a great drought. In autumn, the water level was exceeding low; forests burned. The sky turned red. There was very much smoke, people could not see each other. Fish & birds died from the smoke; fish stank of the smoke for 2 years.
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Reports of a strange glow in the sky came from across Europe shortly after midnight on 1 July 1908. Londoners were intrigued to see a pink phosphorescent night sky over the city. People who had retired awoke confused as the strange pink glow shone into their bedrooms.
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The same ruddy luminescence was reported over Belgium in 1908. One golf game in England almost went on until four in the morning under the nocturnal red glow. The Times of London was inundated with letters from readers from all over the UK to report the curious red 'skyglow'.
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A woman in Huntingdon in 1908 wrote that she had been able to read a book in her bedroom solely by the peculiar rosy light.” Today we might refer to this effect as associated with the formation of “noctilucent clouds” (likely) from a comet impact.
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