17 September 2017

Weird-Looking Sky - UPDATED

27 Elul 5777

Yesterday, shortly before havdalah, we noticed the post-sunset sky had a strange glow to it and was a weird yellowish color long after the sun had gone. 

Today, it's electric orange and glowing red. Anybody else notice it? I've never seen anything like it. The pictures really don't do it justice. This is looking towards Jerusalem.




UPDATE 18/09/17

This is a reader-submitted photo taken from RBS yesterday


 And this is what it looks like from my house today. Strangely, almost no color at all.


21 comments:

  1. i saw it too, in the Negev.

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  2. So weird .... my son noticed it here in Raanana. He said "Mommy did you see the sky the sunset was weird the sky was on fire". He knows I like sunsets, but I just caught the tail end of it.

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  3. If you thought the reddish post-sunset sky was amazing, if not a little disconcerting, you should have seen the sky this morning before sunrise!
    I live up north in the Haifa area and as I was on my way to work at around 6:15, I noticed the dark blue-grey sky quickly lit up to a brilliant, not entirely natural looking, deep yellow that filled the sky with so much brightness.
    I thought for a second that the Sun had come up early, but where was the Sun, I couldn't see it anywhere.
    The sky then deepened to the less luminous red, much like you see in these sunset photos. The Sun did eventually rise over the mountains after 6:30, a red-orange ball, that then brightened to its usual piercing whiteness against a normal blue sky.
    Anyway, I thought it was strange. What was it? A warning about a coming sand storm? Or something else?

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  4. Even here in the Pacific Northwest... the sunset was glorious!!! It looked at one little moment that there was a double sun!!! So beautiful golden Color.

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  5. Look closer at the first photo, right under the curving branch. Do you see a circle that looks like a sun? Could it be a full moon? Or the oncoming star that is talked about?

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  6. I also saw the pre hashacha red glow in the sky.I live in the north. The shemesh was not yet over the mountains so the color was odd. It reverted to the usual dark grey bef the shemesh finally emerged. Last week there were 2 reddish moons. Anyone notice?

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  7. My son also called me from Rananna about the sunset I went to my gag because I can see all the way to the Med. Sea it was such a bright yellow and orange it was eerie looking at it.. On the internet they talk about Nibiru again and say that something big will happen on the 23rd this month.. Some Rabbis also said that something big will happen this holiday.. May HaShem turn everything for the best and bring Moshiach with rachamim.. Shana Tova umetuka to all of Am Israel...

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  8. You know, I saw my whole neighborhood shining a glowing pink and thought it unusual. However, living in Eretz Yisrael - everything is not-usual. We are under the watchful eye of Hashem from the beginning of the year to the end of the year - a revolving cycle of miracles. Kasiva V'Hatima Tovah and a Shana Tovah U'Metuka

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  9. Thanks everyone for your comments. I'm thinking it may have something to do with the solar windstream - like auroras, but not. Maybe we were so bombarded last week that the effects of it have been compounded in our atmosphere. If you see anything really out of the ordinary tonight, send me a pic.

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  10. I saw it too, both toward the end of Shabbath, when the day had been partly cloudy and last night, after a cloudless day. Strange yellow-orange sky both times. Definitely not like the usual sunsets. Even the dusty air that sometimes heralds autumn doesn't look like that.

    I live only one neighborhood from the furthest west in Yerushalayim.

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  11. Dear Tomer Devorah, Yes, saw it. I was sitting in our Beit Knesset (Shalom v'Reut) on the top of the Hill of the Priests/Givat Chananiya, Jerusalem, looking out the back door of our Beit Knesset directly down on the Temple Mount and Dome of the Rock down below. And then I saw it. This Strange Orange Light illuminating the Temple Mount and Dome of the Rock. After coming out of the Beit Knesset, back on Rehov Yishai at the top of the Hill of the Priests, then I saw That Strange Orange Light illuminating the Western Sky where the Sun was setting. Been living up here for over twenty two years and never saw anything like this before. Shana Tova from Givat Chananiya/Hill of the Priests, Jerusalem, ISRAEL, LJG

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  12. I saw exactly the same thing on Sun morning on the 5.59 train from Bet Shemesh to Tel Aviv. It was eerie.

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  13. Yes I too called my husband and kids to look at it....it looked and felt strange... also the sunrise had this strange yellow tint.....

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    1. Yaak please translate what you linked to.

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    2. In Israel this evening (Sunday), a beautiful red sunset was viewed, which was recorded by dozens of Internet surfers. The color of the sky turned to bright red, which slowly became painted black as the sunset progressed. The reddish color started to be seen approaching 7 PM.

      Dr. Yigal Pat-El explained in an interview to ynet about the phenomenon and said, "At the moment that the sun sets, its color decomposes into all the colors of the rainbow. Its red rays pass through the atmosphere the best. At the moment that there is dust in the atmosphere - or very high clouds - the sun makes them shine and then we see the entire skyline colored red. These are those particles that reflect the light of the sun."

      Dr. Pat-El also explained that, "When the sun sets, we see it with the color red. After it sets and descends under the horizon, the red rays still shine and meets the sky and this material reflects. Sometimes, when there are very high clouds, it's possible to see these rays much after the sun sets under the horizon. This is a type of optical illusion."

      "Meteo-tech" forecaster Avi Elkov said that, "this phenomenon is not necessarily meteorological, but rather of rays of light. This phenomenon which was formed as a result of the sun breaking in a certain angle due to the particles that are in the atmosphere. This is not something unusual or incomprehensible - mainly, it is a beautiful phenomenon from which it is worth benefiting.

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  15. Sigh. Well it does happen to be the hurricane season, so happens every year in these regions.

    JS

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  16. Has anyone else noticed that besides sharing the same track, Irma and Maria share the same letters?

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  17. I’ve been following the ‘hurricanes’ and posted this Jose and MARIA. MARIA is likened to IRMA and is moving “fast and furious”.
    About the sunset, I’m not so enamored by the ‘technical’ explanation of that sunset. I believe it reflects OTHER planet bodies in our vicinity causing the unusual glow. This has been witnessed in other parts of the globe, being a second sun-like glow on the horizon.

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