Fairway To Hell

Well that is just my opinion , not keen or comfortable with big towns or cities and especially London – seen here from up on Epsom Downs , the City of London on the skyline is at least fifteen miles away !!
I have posted a couple of shots like this from here but I think this one is possibly the clearest . Strange as the previous day everything was orange with the sand from Africa.
Saharan dust cloud sweeping over parts of the UK has turned London’s sky orange on Wednesday.

Social media was awash with dramatic photographs of the skies above the capital.

Many Londoners debated what colour hue it was – with everything from red to yellow, green and sepia being thrown into the mix.

Among the comments, one person said: “Anyone notice the sky over London is a weird yellow sepia colour?! what is happening?”
Another posted: “There is a really horrible coloured sky in West London this morning. Everything has a slight green tinge about it… Disconcerting.”

Explaining why the sky turns colour, Met Office forecaster Richard Miles said: “The orange effect is caused by the Rayleigh scattering, which is the same effect that gives you the blue sky.
“The additional dust will scatter the blue light and create more red light effects which gives sunsets their distinctive colour.
“So the more layers of dust in the atmosphere the right conditions will give you orange and red tints to the sky.”
He said the Saharan dust cloud was due to a storm system near Spain.

However, Mr Miles said there was no disruption expected as there was no “significant quantities” of dust to affect air quality.

“It will only be the effects that you see in the sky,” he said.

Having read that I have to disagree with this news report , the following day the air was indeed clear , but outside there were many deposits of the fine orange sand/dust coated on any flat surface outside .

Posted by MedievalRocker on 2022-03-19 23:27:24

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