The moon is orange??!

I'm looking out my window and noticed the moon is bright orange. It's hidden behind some clouds but it's visible. Could somebody answer my question and if you're from the United Kingdom could you look out the window and see if it's the same for you?

What you are witnessing is a lunar eclipse. A lunar eclipse is when the moon is completely behind the Earth's shadow. This means that no light from the sun is reaching the moon (the light from the sun is what gives the moon its bright white shine) causing it to become orange or red in colour. Why it becomes this colour is actually beyond me, but this event is certainly no cause for alarm. Lunar Eclipses are perfectly normal.
As a matter of fact, the Eclipse that you are viewing is a predicted total eclipse for June 15 2011.

The moon can appear orange when it is low in the sky and when there are a lot of dust particles in the atmosphere.
The visible light of the moon is made up of different colors: red, orange, yellow, blue, green and purple (which together appear white).

As it approaches Earth, the light of the moon passes through the atmosphere. When the air is clear and the moon is overhead, the light rays all reach the Earth, and so the moon appears white.

So why does the moon look orange when it is low or when the sky is dusty, smoky or polluted? These circumstances make it more difficult for the light waves to travel all the way to you. When the moon is low on the horizon, it's actually much farther away from you than when it is overhead, so its light has to travel through a lot more atmosphere to reach you.

Along the way, some of the colors (blue, green and purple) get refracted (deflected off their path because of their short wavelength) by the particles in the air - they just can't make it through all that dust and pollution. The strong light waves that do make it are (you guessed it!) red, yellow and orange - the colors with the longest wavelengths.