The Florida sky turned purple after Super Storm Dorian passed by

The people of Florida, USA have just witnessed the night sky with a fanciful purple color after the storm hit the coastal area on the east coast of the United States.

Amy Pope-Latham watched the sky turn bright purple at sunset on August 4 from her balcony in Jacksonville, Florida.

Amy said that she witnessed the clouds in the sky changing from gray to burning orange and finally to a fanciful purple just a few minutes before it disappeared.

"I live in Jacksonville and stay indoors all day. We constantly check the weather forecast to see where the Dorian storm has gone," said Amy.

The Florida sky turned purple on September 4 after Hurricane Dorian passed.(Photo: CNN).

Super typhoon Dorian devastated the islands of Abaco and the Grand Bahama of the Bahamas, leaving at least 23 dead. It is moving slowly toward the coasts of North and South Carolina.

Berivan Keskin was cooking dinner for her family when she noticed the sky began to change, according to CNN.

She has lived in Jacksonville for about 2 years but has never experienced a storm. The Keskin house was not damaged. And she witnessed a "unprecedented" sunset in her life.

Florida people "flooded" in photos of the sky on social networks.

The purple color in the sky is the result of scattering of small particles in the atmosphere.(Image: Twitter / News4JAX).

This phenomenon sometimes occurs after a storm passes.

The color of sunset is the result of a phenomenon called scattering , says Steven Ackerman, professor of meteorology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The molecules and small particles in the atmosphere change the direction of the light rays, causing them to be scattered.

Scattering affects the color of sunlight before it reaches the human eye. Short-wavelength light like violet and blue is more scattered than other colors. This is why blue and purple light reaches our eyes from all directions on a clear day, according to CNN.