YELLOW SKIES, DUBLIN??

steo 24

I dont know what the rest of Dublin is like, but atm around the Palmerstown Lucan area, the Sky has a salmon colour to it, feels like the end of the world or something lol

Does anyone know what this could be?

Myrddin

Same here, D10 area. Mental pink colour now, it was orange a few mins ago...

Yawns

Orange here in Athy for last 30 mins or so, just now going slightly pink

Simon Gruber Says

Very orange alright. My guess is that the Sun is reflecting off the base of the clouds as it's decending below the horizon.

dots03

same in South Kildare...it's freaky.

It started off orange and is now almost purple.

light moving through the colours of the spectrum for some reason?

long_b

Same in Kildare.
Weird - remember seeing it like this about 25 years ago in Galway. Haven't seen it since

What's the cause folks ?

pad199207

skies have gone pink here now

WilhelmFink

Yeah, pink-y here too between Blessington & Carlow


We had a good run

MrDerp

Very trippy purple in D5

pad199207

base of clouds is extremely low!

keelanj69

Pinky cream in Thurles. I was wondering if we are now living in a post nucleur apocalypse world.

Zyzz

Black for me!







cause Im a blind man

TheChizler

Same down in Cork!

meryl.diab

Yes, very weird purple skies in D5.

pad199207

Like a Fog here now

endacl

Sh1t! It's happening!!!!

Outkast_IRE

very pink in cork

emo72

walked out of liffey valley about 845 and all i can describe it as "flourescent lighting outside". my daughter described it as "dementor skies from harry potter". but it was amazing.

purple sky

MsQuinn

salmon pink with blueish bits in Offaly

Auldloon

GIANT TENTACLES NOW!!!!

Tornando9

SHARKNADO..........!!!!!!!!!!

pad199207

If the low cloud would just clear there would be a magnificent sunset!

Bsal

From Swords

Knob Longman

steo 24 wrote: »

I dont know what the rest of Dublin is like, but atm around the Palmerstown Lucan area, the Sky has a salmon colour to it, feels like the end of the world or something lol

Does anyone know what this could be?

Its like that a lot in Cork lately too, Its absolutely disgusting. Our weather has gone too weird last few years..

maquiladora

The sun just installed Instagram.

kirving

The panorama feature on my phone's camera compresses the image hugely, which I don't understand, but I took this earlier.

Edit: Rotated and adjusted a little on the PC.

RobbingBandit

Fluffy blue,grey,pink,orange clouds in Finglas about 20 minutes ago, the mothership has landed.

pad199207

Knob Longman wrote: »

Its like that a lot in Cork lately too, Its absolutely disgusting. Our weather has gone too weird last few years..

Now youve said it

endacl

Knob Longman wrote: »

Its like that a lot in Cork lately too, Its absolutely disgusting. Our weather has gone too weird last few years..

Denis the Menace

It was yellow in Cork too about 30 mins ago.. I'm guessing just a funny sunset? Pity, I missed it as it's the hill behind my house so I can't see it from here.

snowstorm445

Pink hue in the sky up until a few minutes ago, now its become darker. Very eerie. :eek:

5uspect

Here's one with the default 'cloudy' white balance on my camera. Reflects it pretty well.

endacl

5uspect wrote: »

Here's one with the default 'cloudy' white balance on my camera. Reflects it pretty well.

That picture was taken on Mars.

I call shenanigans.

HungryJoey

Working out in city west tonight and it went very yellow followed by pinky/purply atmospherey colour :P

Felt like the end of the world! I had just come out of the gym and kept closing and re-opening my eyes as I wasn't sure if it was my eyes not adjusting correctly.

5uspect

endacl wrote: »

That picture was taken on Mars.

I call shenanigans.

I can send you the 25MB RAW file!

grey_so_what

I'm Jealous........

West of West as far as you can go is cloudy and blue/grey......

"Shepard's Delight" and all that?

endacl

5uspect wrote: »

I can send you the 25MB RAW file!

You'll route that through a proxy server to hide the fact that it was sent from Mars.

I won't fall for that one again!

Hal1

My guess is dust from the Sahara in the atmosphere.

nodnod

I enclose the pinky sky just at end of large grey stormy rain at blanchardstown

pandaboy

Tuco's cousins must've been over for a visit. Great bunch of lads they are.

maquiladora

Hal1 wrote: »

My guess is dust from the Sahara in the atmosphere.

Maybe not.

nodnod

Just to prove that this is an image from same time on naas rd from dublin city webcams And there is no colour or effect added to the picture from blanchardstown

emo72

endacl wrote: »

That picture was taken on Mars.

I call shenanigans.

thats exactly what i saw. obviously the sun was setting and reflecting off dark clouds. i thought i saw a few flashes too. but cant be certain, in clondalkin.

RobbingBandit

A Russian Volcano erupted in the last few days it could be ash in the atmosphere from that,what ever it was it sure was purty.

endacl

Likely to be a result of refraction through a load of particularly heavy and regular raindrops as the sun set, I'd say. Kind of like having the rainbow effect from a prism panned steadily down.

claypigeon777

Blue and green light are more easily scattered than red light which is why the sky appears read at sunset.



Because dust and fumes are close to the ground they break up the blue and green light but not the red which why when the sun is close to the horizon the sky turns red and different shades of red.

zenno

I noticed this myself earlier, it was a very yellow colour and i said this to some people here, it looked very odd.

dregin

A mate in Astronomy Ireland tells me this is what caused it: http://events.slooh.com/

"A spectacular Nova in constellation Delphinus went bang on August 14th"

Harps

If its what I'm thinking of then I've seen it quite a few times here, hardly that rare is it

Happens when there's low cloud overhead but the western horizon is clear

Edit: Meant to post that half an hour ago before there were pics in the thread, definitely looks like the sun illuminating the misty low cloud

PerrDub

http://youtu.be/di8GDaRB-_Q

matt-dublin

Greystones earlier