Re: Strange orange sky

On 31 Aug 2005 11:55:30 -0700, nick150971@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>(Southampton) currently a strange orange sky oddly to the east, not to
>the west where the sun is. Mid level cloud in all directions so I'm a
>bit puzzled as to the source of this effect.
>
I saw the same effect, roughly an hour before dusk, maybe less. The
colour was yellow/orange as you might expect just before sunset... but
it was from directly overhead and looked... weird.. I went out to
investigate, camera in hand.

There was about 7/8 cloud cover, fast moving SC I think, with a gap
overhead, through which I could see a small patch of blue sky... and a
much higher bright yellow/orange cloud... it looked like an
overhanging anvil from a thunderstorm off to my East. The anvil seemed
to be catching the bright evening sun from its West and below, thick
SC to the West cutting out the normal evening illumination from the
sun. Most of the light received was being reflected from the anvil
overhead.

'Twas an eery experience and the most similar I can recall was in the
1999 Solar Eclipse, looking out from Brixham across Lyme Bay to beyond
the umbral shadow - the distant penumbral colours were similar to what
came from overhead tonight. Once the gap in the SC closed, it went
dark very rapidly indeed. Fascinating!

>Here the "event" was about half an hour, maybe an hour of rain - no
>thunder. Still more organised than forecasts suggested... the "event"
>seems to have been downplayed prior to today. The charts always looked
>disturbed, with lows and troughs, but most forecasts were going for
>sunny with isolated thundery showers.
>Better to follow the charts than the forecasts?
>
There was thunder and lighting here but nothing too severe, however, i
telephoned someone further South East (under that CuNim) and things
were much more "interesting" there!

--
Dave
Fareham (West)
.

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