Unusually light and orangey across sky and houses so later after sunset.
1745 East Yorkshire.

Wonderful orange /pink in southwest Essex 1752z
RonB
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Unusually light and orangey across sky and houses so later after sunset.
1745 East Yorkshire.

On Feb 18, 5:47*pm, "Trevor"
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Unusually light and orangey across sky and houses so later after sunset.
1745 East Yorkshire.

Have to agree just a red /orange hue to the east of Sydenham.

Unusually light and orangey across sky and houses so later after sunset.
1745 East Yorkshire.
Here's the view from here (north Kent):

http://i30.tinypic.com/vrez34.jpg

Absolutely fantastic sunset, following on from that lovely sunrise this
morning.

I guess it must be pollution from the Continent causing it (as I'm unaware
of any large-scale fires to our east)...

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Unusually light and orangey across sky and houses so later after sunset.
1745 East Yorkshire.

We've had the same sunset here, too. Beautiful colours indeed!

Yannis.

"Trevor" wrote in message
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Unusually light and orangey across sky and houses so later after sunset.
1745 East Yorkshire.

Grabbed the camera quick and managed to get the following at around 17:30 in
Chigwell, Essex
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/geoff.h...1/P1020770.JPG

Geoff

I dont think there's anythin unusal about a sunset like this in such winter
conditions as we have. Sure its glorious perhaps we are just not used to
such long spells of clear weather but pretty normal. Anyway thats your lot
as far as tomorrow is concerned.


"Trevor" wrote in message
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Unusually light and orangey across sky and houses so later after sunset.
1745 East Yorkshire.

I suspect that these sunset colours, and it was a spectacular sunset and
ditto the sunrise this morning, are associated with abnormally low
temperatures at between 20.5 and 23 km altitude, generally below -88C,
and -90.9C at Albermarle at 1200z. Those sort of temperatures will probably
produce a layer of thin cloud akin to cirrostratus. The sunset glow could
only be observed in the direction of the sun, and at no time covered the sky
in the opposite direction, indicating that the phenomenon was one of forward
scattering of sunlight. I also noticed some crepuscular rays caused by
shadows of distant clouds, possibly about 600 miles away over the Atlantic.

--
Bernard Burton
Wokingham, Berkshire, UK.

Satellite images at:
www.woksat.info/wwp.html
or
www.btinternet.com/~wokingham.weather/wwp.html
"Darren Prescott" wrote in message
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Unusually light and orangey across sky and houses so later after sunset.
1745 East Yorkshire.
Here's the view from here (north Kent):

http://i30.tinypic.com/vrez34.jpg

Absolutely fantastic sunset, following on from that lovely sunrise this
morning.

I guess it must be pollution from the Continent causing it (as I'm unaware
of any large-scale fires to our east)...

On 18 Feb, 17:47, "Trevor"
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Unusually light and orangey across sky and houses so later after sunset.
1745 East Yorkshire.

Yes I saw it here too, was expecting it due to last night's display
which I didn't manage to capture so went out specifically to capture
this one...
http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/nickw7...nriseAndSunset
gives a bit of an idea of what it was like, very difficult to get the
colours/exposure right, using Nikon D50 DSLR

Nick in Northallerton

Trevor wrote:
Unusually light and orangey across sky and houses so later after
sunset. 1745 East Yorkshire.

Was the same as you and everyone else here has described here in Glasgow, at
around 18:10 it was a wonderfully deep band of orange just before it got
dark properly.

Didn't get any photos sadly :-(