Yellow Sky at Noon...

[The Judge]

Red sky at night, Shepherd's delight, but Yellow at noon, Apocalypse soon?

There's really strange light here in my corner of Hampshire at present. There's full cloud cover, but the clouds themselves have a bright, sickly greyish-yellow cast to them.

The BBC website has a bit about weather phenomena caused by the remnants of Hurricane Ophelia hitting us, but that's all red sun/red light, not this yellow one. Red sun 'caused by Hurricane Ophelia'

Sand-laden air from the Sahara, apparently, but we're obviously getting more of the sandy stuff than other places.

 

[HoopyFrood]

We had it all this morning down in the leg of the country. It's now gone to normal sunny skies.

 

[The Ace]

We're the same here, and it looks like somebody turned down the sun a bit. I needed a reading-lamp at 10am.

 

[Venusian Broon]

Yeah same up here in Auld Reekie. However we've had quite dense fog for most of the morning. If you have a look at the Guardians coverage of Ophelia, there's a picture of a red sun in a yellow-ish sky that is the same colour as the clouds are here.

It makes sense - if the air is full of yellow-ish particulates from the Sahara, then lots of the yellow end of the spectrum is being bounced about before it reaches us and giving the clouds their mustard hue, whereas the red light continues more-or-less unhindered.

EDIT: lots of particles would also drop the intensity of course

 

[BAYLOR]

Very strange .

 

[nixie]

We have it here too. Weird coloured sky, Sun looks like something from a sci-fi film. People walking along staring at sky, taking pictures, bumping into each other because they aren't looking where they are going.

I'm finding it hilarious, it's normally me that walks into thing.

 

[HareBrain]

Wow, it's just reached here. Sent all the seagulls into a panic.

 

[Brian G Turner]

Yeah, we had that here - now the sky is more grey than yellow. But it still looks very ominous.

 

[HoopyFrood]

Having been through it, I can assure you you'll make it out the other side. Unless the apocalypse chose to spare us here, in which case, good luck.

 

[HanaBi]

Same here in Birmingham at around 11 this morning - very dark, yet red-sandy coloured skies; not helped by gale force winds blowing the trees all over the shops and leaves tumbling by the bucket-load.

All clear now, 'cept for the wind

 

[Brian G Turner]

It's getting darker and yellower here again. But, surprisingly, not much wind or rain today.

 

[Brian G Turner]

Whoah - it's seriously dark now. The kids are comparing it to a rad storm in Fallout 4 ...

 

[Mouse]

Yup, as Hoops said, we had it all this morn down yer. Passed by now and the sky's blue again. I was going to say nobody's died but I've just come back from my grandmother's and apparently somebody has died (car hit by a tree).

 

[Harpo]

Up here in the Hebrides we have the usual magnificent grey skies and no glimpses of the sun at all.
Same old, so far.
The wind speed has increased gradually through the day, and I've secured my bins.

 

[mosaix]

Yellow, cloudy sky this morning and for a brief period an intensely orange sun filtered by the clouds. It was possible to look at it directly without the slightest ill effect.

 

[BAYLOR]

Looks very erie.

 

[HanaBi]

If Data from Star Trek: Next Gen, was here, he would probably suggest there was a problem with the Dermatiraelian transwarp discriminator with the photonic neutrino field.

 

[AlexH]

Here's a good shot I saw from London: Amateur Photographer