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On Tue, 17 Oct 2017 17:03:56 +0100, slider <
slider@nanashram.com>
wrote:
On Mon, 16 Oct 2017 22:38:16 +0100, thang ornerythinchus ><thangolossus@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, 16 Oct 2017 14:39:38 +0100, slider <slider@nanashram.com>
wrote:
Did you wake up to a ghostly red sun today? Many people in England
reported the phenomenon on Monday morning - and it appears to have been
caused by Hurricane Ophelia.
The unusual phenomenon has been seen in the South West, West Midlands,
North West and North East.
Many posted pictures of the bizarre sighting on social media, wondering
if
it is a sign of the oncoming storm.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/10/16/strange-red-sun-phenomenon-seen-across-england-caused-hurricane/
According to the Met Office, the red sun is caused by winds pulling up
Saharan dust.
This dust is then reflected and refracted in longer wavelengths, giving
a
red appearance to the sky.
Some areas have been forced to turn on street lights in the middle of
the
day as the dust partially blocked out the sun.
Sharon Derrick shared a video of the sun over Bristol and said: "Bristol >>> looks like the film The Red Planet... the weather is bizarre."
One woman wrote on Instagram: "It looks like the apocalypse is coming!
Anyone else seen the amazing red sun due to the dust storm from the
Azores? That combined with the really warm, strong winds, make it feel
very eerie outside today! Keep safe everyone".
Met Office forecaster Grahame Madge said the former hurricane is pulling >>> air and dust up from southern Europe and Africa.
"It's all connected with Ophelia, on the eastern side of the low
pressure
system air is coming up in the southern direction," he said.
### - spooky atmosphere here this morning in the uk; a glowing red sun
reminiscent of the gulf war that time wherein everything turned red for
a
couple of days just as the troops went into iraq, caused by sand, dust
whatever, everyone's saying/suggesting it's nothing but was no less
spooky
for all that heh...
it certainly 'looked' like the end of the world here today!
battening down the hatches here boss, looks like there's a storm coming!
80km/hr? A mere breeze...
### - 80mph is about the same strength winds as 'the great storm' of 30
years ago in the uk (tail-end of another hurricane) in which 18 died and
half the trees in the uk were blown down + which also caused around a
billion pounds worth of damage to boot...
i remember it well, there was nothing 'merely' about it :)
Yep, 80m/hr (not 80km/hr) is a stiff zephyr indeed. However, I spent
the first 18 years of my life in Far North Queensland where I
experienced 29 cyclones of which Althea which hit Townsville in
Christmas Eve 1971 was the one which sticks in my memory (I was going
to James Cook Uni at the time and living in Townsville):
http://www.windworker.com.au/windworker_history.htm
Here's some historic photos. Note the wind gusts were up to 218km/hr
which is 135 m/ph. I remember being driven to the Uni after it hit
and split level homes were lining the road with the upper level
missing and only pipes with bathtubs hanging off them remaining.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s68Hk1STqLU
At 1.47 you can see the roofs starting to come off.
Now *that's* a zephyr, and I lived it (ahh, memories...)
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