Yesterday was a weird day for weather. The storm Ophelia swept through the west of the country. Although we are on the East of the country and the storm missed us it’s effects were seen over the whole of the country.
We started the day with an exceptionally high temperature for October. The temperature rose to 22 degrees c/72 degrees f by half past twelve as I came out of the supermarket after doing my daily shop. By the time I arrived home at one o’clock the temperature had dropped to a more normal 17 degrees c/64 degrees f. This was followed by a strange yellow light. The sky was a yellowish grey. An hour later the sun appeared and was as red as a blood orange.
I tried to capture it in photos but the colour didn’t show up. The sky was the nearest to the colour that I got. The yellow/orange light didn’t show and the camera didn’t capture the red sun later.
A strange sky
Yellow/grey sky
It was quite eerie. Through following several blogs I could see that this was happening all over the country. It was caused by sand from the Sahara being pushed up into the atmosphere by Ophelia.
As the day went on everything gradually returned to normal. We were lucky not to be effected by the storm. Tragically three people were killed in Ireland due to trees coming down.
It was strange though that the whole country saw the eerie yellow light and yellow sky. A very weird day!
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It was very warm here. very strange light late after noon. They are now saying it was the dust from those fires that turned the sun orange. Today we still have warm weather,
going to get out in the garden, as they say rain for the next few days for us.
It is 16 degrees c/ 60 degrees f here today which while still warm is quite different from yesterday. Yes, it was the dust from the Sahara and the smoke from Spanish fires that coloured the air orange and the sun red. We too have rain forecast after today.
Here in North Wales we got hit by the wind for most of yesterday and all night. We were awoken at about 2am to the sound of something metal crashing into something else, after checking it wasn’t anything of ours! But I then couldn’t get back to sleep until about 4:30am 🙁
Glad there was no damage apart from not being able to sleep. Ireland and Wales took the brunt of the storm and here in the South East we were lucky not to have the wind, just the strange eerie light, sky and red sun.
I’m glad you and your ladies are safe.
Thank you. We were lucky not to be in it’s path it was just strange and eerie.
Very strong winds here in the north east, but no damage – although the trees have been stripped of all their leaves, virtually. We were in 26 degrees in Sorrento, so missed it all.
Glad you didn’t sustain any damage. Hope you had a good time in Sorrento, very warm!
Yes, thanks – a lovely week. My father came to stay at our house and look after the gurks, as well as several jobs around the home and garden! He’s remarkable for 91.
We all press the next key at times but I’m sorry I just had to laugh out loud at your gurks! Your father does sound amazing.