According to meteorologists and climatologists, the pending apocalyptic hue is electric blue and already floating high above us.
That’s the color of ominously-alluring cloud formations which, prior to the Industrial Revolution of the late 19th century, never appeared in the mesosphere before.
Known as “noctilucent” or “night-shining” clouds, they were first observed over the poles around the mid 1880s and, soon thereafter, began hovering over Russia, Scandinavia and Great Britain, too.
Now, the icy aquamarine colored clouds -- said to be “the highest of all” -- have spread over more temperate regions of the globe, particularly in the nighttime skies above the southern United States.
They make for a beautiful spectacle, of course, but weather experts are warning there’s also a dark side to the bright blue beauties, in that they’re likely a product of advanced global warming.
That’s because these electric blue clouds are created when greenhouse gases trap water-producing methane in the outermost layer of Earth’s atmosphere while at the same time causing freezing-cold conditions there.
Otherwise, the typically cool and bone-dry mesosphere is cloudless.
