Can anyone answer this? why is the sky blue at 3:30 am???? Upstate NY

What town are you in? I have noticed the sun hanging around longer... and having some really odd looking sunsets this season. We also had one of the most intense lightning storms I have ever seen last week. There was rapid-fire lightning strikes coming from three different spots on the horizon hitting about every half second.

I don't have an explanation but can agree i have seen the same. About a month ago in Nashville in the middle of the night I noticed the sky being a very rich deep blue. It was beautiful but also very strange. I have noticed it a few times since then. I have also heard the birds going nuts at like 2 or 3 in the morning a couple of times also. Both things struck me as odd, never having noticed either in my whole life.

I live west of Saratoga County on top of a mountain. We have also had really intense lightening storms as of late. This winter we had fireball lightening and thunder-snow and now when it thunders it just seems to go on forever....... like long rumbling freight trains. A few weeks back there was a thunder noise that sounded like an actual explosion. The next day I checked with neighbors and everyone thought it hit just outside their door...... crazy!

This caught my attention!

We have been experiencing long rumbling thunder. I never heard thunder like that before and I have traveled and camped in many places. Like prolonged thunder.

I live on the East coast too and did some research into this when I was a kid. It is caused by light reflecting off of the surface of the water on the eastern side of the Atlantic reflecting off and into the atmosphere causing a diffuse lighting effect. Very cool you've made note though!

The birds have always sung before dawn. Last night it was a beautifully clear night. Of course the time of year should be a dead give away.

We have seen this, too! We live in Western North Carolina on top of a mountain. To our North are National forests so no city lights and to our South is Asheville. We see city lights in the South nightly but a couple of weeks ago around 1 AM, we noticed really bright blue sky to our North. I don't recall EVER seeing lights in the North because there are no cities in that direction to account for the light. VERY STRANGE!

Last Edited by ^Watcher^ on 06/13/2011 09:53 AM

I with you. I'm just outside of Syracuse, and over the last month or two without fail, those birds start chirping around 3:05am....as if it was 7am. REALLY loud.

camping this weekend in the north east.

blue sky all through the night and birds chirping as if it were daytime.


the worst headache of my life after hiking too

It's absolutely normal for northern hemisphere in this time of a year. I wonder why you didn't notice this in the years before. And the dark-blue sky is not a sunrise yet.

For example in Moscow (lat 55) sky never goes completely black in the middle of June. You can always see this Dark-blue light on the horizon at night.

Same here....... I live far away from any city or light pollution - I've lived here for many years and typically at night (even in the summer) the skies stay dark until 5:00 am - now it's so electric-blue outside at 3:00 am that you can actually see everything - even without a flashlight. I would like any information on what could be causing this.

I've lived here for years....... I often would wake up pre-dawn to view the constellations and star-gaze, look for meteors etc .... the sky is different as of late - it is definitely not a typical June Adirondack sky..... it is a deep looking bluish color

The sun/clock has been off for several years. It's like we sped up or something.

Is there a way to independently measure time?

Because I'm not buying it.

how bout during the day? Seems here in mid west,the sky is a pale milky white and the clouds are a funky blueish color i noticed this last night also...the night sky way to blue and the clouds were too!Somone is using the wrong crayon to color us in...

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most days here have been overcast - heavy clouds and gloomy - we get very little sun these days and all weekend the temps did not get out of the mid-50's - last night I had to turn on my wood-pellet stove because it was so cold. Unprecedented in June. It clears out every night after sunset

We got up one night because the rooster was crowing at 1 AM and we thought something was getting our chickens. Only then did we realized that all the neighbor's roosters were crowing as well and have done so repeatedly since then...something else to wonder about along with the birds chirping.

Anyway, when we got up, we thought there was a full moon out because everything was so lit up. There was no moon anywhere in sight.

I'm not buying the whole "Northern Hemisphere lights up this time of year" thing from Moscow poster. First of all, we are not THAT far up in the Northern Hemisphere to see this effect and, like you, we have lived here for the past 6 years and I am a "night owl" so I have seen my fair share of night skies. THIS is NOT normal!

Where did the reflecting light come from? Some people on this site reported not being able to see the moon sometimes, but still the sky is bluish late at night.

i live in watertown, i have noticed a purple sky before i go to bed

I am hearing unusual bird songs. Like several different species is hanging about. I've lived in this area for 36 years, and these new calls jumped out at me like nobodies business.I'm even hearing odd bird calls during the day. There even seems to have been a noticeable lack of migration this past winter. Very strange.

I don't know about the whole "sun is in a different spot" thing, but I do hear roosters crowing at 3 AM and I have two clock radios that gain 10 minutes like every two weeks! WTF is going on?

In NJ the last few storms the thunder just rumbled on for ever like a train. I thought it was very strange and there was no lightning.

Welcome to the upcoming summer solstice (June 21), the longest days of the year.

we are experiencing the same train-like rolling thunder here as well - does anyone know what's causing this? does anyone have info on the blue-sky at night phenonemon? how about the birds chirping at all kinds of strange hours? the lack of birds singing in the daytime? how about the constant heavy winds? the cold temps? too much happening with no explanation

I work nights and I have heard Birds up singing away at 2-3 AM on east coast as well. I can't recall ever hearing Birds chirp at night ever. I thought it to be very odd as well. One could always hear the 'peepers' and bugs zooming around but no Birds.

I am 48 years old and have lived through may a "summer solstice" - this is not the same - the sky is actually BLUE at night - not black - if it were a typical "summer solstice" I would not have posed the question.......

Simply looking for a scientific explanation regarding this strange occurance

sorry double post

Last Edited by Munsoned on 06/13/2011 10:56 AM

i am in rotterdam ny. i noticed something very unusual too op.i was able to see the moon from bedroom window, then in about one minute it moved to the front of the house.there were dark clouds and puffy white clouds moving rapidly hiding the moon.the sky was also blue, this was around 10;00 pm last night.

Down here in Central Texas, I've noticed that we still had some light out between 930pm and 10pm. Thought that was a tad odd but just attributed to maybe just not having noticed it in previous years.

This time of year dawn starts around 4:30am, the birds start an hour or so before. I cannot honestly believe you have just noticed. This as to be a joke.