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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!
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