Over the past couple of days, several video clips and images have circulated on Twitter and other social media sites showing what appears to be a deep red colored sky in the Chinese east coast city of Zhoushan.
One popular clip that has been shared by several people but appears to have originated from the Chinese social media website Weibo shows a view of the sky from a residential street. As people stand and talk, the camera pans across the sky showing the blood red color, which appears brighter towards the horizon.
On the evening of 5.7, in Zhoushan, Zhejiang, the sky was blood red pic.twitter.com/DeIUvl7BTw
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The apocalypse seemingly arrived early in China’s eastern port city of Zhoushan with the sky appearing blood red over the weekend. What the hell? Turns out that the horrific hue was caused by the lights of boats in the area. From The Independent
According to the experts, the weather in Zhoushan port city was perfect for a refraction phenomenon as the sky was cloudy with drizzle which led to an unusual reddening of the sky, triggering a brief panic.
A member from the meteorological bureau explained that when weather conditions are good, it leads to formation of more water in the atmosphere. This forms aerosols which then refract and scatter the light of fishing boats and create the red sky seen by the public,” the official said, the report added.
