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Incredible light here in Maidenhead a little while ago, around sunset. It was overcast and drizzling, but everything was looking really pink. As if you were looking through a window with a pink film on it.

Has anyone ever seen this sort of atmospheric effect before? What causes it?
 
Have no idea what causes it but it was very similar up here looking over Halifax ............I did think about teking a photo........but couldn't be ar**d
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And West Lancs. Something I've experienced before but no idea what causes it.
 
Pink..?

we have a delightful yet delicate, dance of rainy fog and diesel fumes


quate uplifting.......I say
 
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Is it the same 'effect' of the pink/red sunset that one sees where it was my understanding that it was due to combination of the sun shining through the atmosphere at its thickest with the addition of dust. And the dust is the key to get the colour.
 
As said above it's due to the refraction of light with the sun shining through the atmosphere, "believe" we get the pink effect when the cloud base is higher than normal in the atmosphere and with 100% cover so it acts like a giant softbox, with a lower cloud base in the atmosphere we get the more normal "red sky at night".
 
Graham W said:
Same here in Derby. I opened the downstairs curtains and thought I'd left the outside lights on. An eerie glow.
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Are you sure it's not from the dodgy substances being smoked on Normanton Road? ;)
 
Graham W said:
Very possibly!

Anyway, I'll have you know that I reside in the posh end of town...on an Avenue to boot!:woot:
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Steady on!!!
Mickleover?
(15 years since I migrated south.....whole city could have flipped by now :lol: Certainly the roads had changed the last time I was there!! I mean, where the hell has the Eagle Centre gone??? :eek: )
 
I like all the dust / cloud filter comments etc. and these could well be the answer but may I ask if any of you have seen - War of the Worlds / Independence Day etc.?
Don't say I didn't warn you!
 
Interesting (or very boring) story I heard (it's related), that I can't find online.

A scientist (unknown to me) pondered the sky at sunset and set out to discover what causes the change in colour. Eventually he shone a light through a fish tank, and dropped fine solids into the water. He discovered that the further the light travelled though the contaminated liquid, the redder it becomes as the solids filter out the blue light. So it's almost invisible airborne particles that change the colour of the sky.

Trying to work out what was hanging about in the air, he eventually discovered air borne pathogens and changed our understanding of 'germs'. Thus was borne 'blue sky thinking' and it's attachment to the concept that if you free your mind to possibilities you can discover more than you set out to.

Of course, that could be b******t. But I like it.
 
I remember the same thing happening when I was a kid about 25 years ago in Birmingham. Except it was morning, maybe 7am.

At the time, none of the other school kids saw it so i didnt know if it was just me but the image will stay with me forever.
 
Red sky in morning shepherds warning, red sky at night shepherds delight.
 
A red sun rise occurs when there is a good expanse of clear skies towards the east but at the same time cloud is thickening in from the west, often associated with an approaching Atlantic weather front, this way the light from the rising sun has a good run in from the eastern horizon and able to "undercut" the approaching cloud layer, lightning it up from underneath.
The same thing occurs at sunset when there is clear skies to the west while overhead cloud is receding towards the east, so the light from the setting sun has a good run in from the west and able to undercut the receding cloud layer.
That's why we don't need a polluted airmass to "filter out" the colour spectrum. It is also the reason why the old adage "red sky in morning, sailor's warning, red sky in evening, shepherd's delight" rings true more often than not.
Taking into account my life long amateur meteorological skills, it is nearly possible for me to forecast whether a coloured sunrise or sunset is expected.
 
OldCarlos said:
But doesn't rhyme. :D

;)
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:p Actually, it is "Red sky in morning, shepherd's warning, red sky at night, shepherd's delight", but at night time it would be dark.

But that's me being in Sheldon Cooper mode.
 
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