Earthquake strikes Tokyo as it braces for worst storm in decades 02:08. As people in Japan braced for a powerful typhoon Friday night, they looked up to see a strange phenomenon: a bright purple sky.

The sky turned purple in Japan. @ara_to1/ Twitter 2019-10-12T15:57:32Z Share. Facebook Email X LinkedIn Copy link. An icon in ... The purple sky is actually known as scattering, ...

Currently the typhoon has maximum sustained wind speeds of around 120 miles per hour, equivalent to a Category 3 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale.

Why Japan's Sky Turned Surreal. This purple tint appeared shortly before a massive typhoon slammed the country. By David Grossman Published: Oct 14, 2019 3:51 PM EDT.

The sky in Japan turned purple hours before the wrath of Super Typhoon Hagibis. A beautiful scene, indeed. But beneath it lies a big catastrophe. Pray for Japan, everyone.

Typhoon Hagibis, thought to be the worst to hit Japan in six decades, turned the sky a vivid and eerie shade of purple in parts of the country.

The sky turned purple before the storm Credit: @ika-mesugorira/PA The skies above Japan turned purple before the country’s worst storm in 60 years hit. Before the heavy downpours and strong ...

This makes the colours of the sky appear more vivid. As of Saturday, 7.3 million people have been placed under a non-compulsory evacuation order and told to "be ready for rainfall of the kind that you ...