While visiting Ostend, Ryan observed a strange phenomenon above the sea.There is a yellow cloud. Can you tell us what is it?“, he wrote to us via the orange button Alert us.
Ryan is not the only one to have observed this cloud. Our Flemish colleagues from The Latest News on justement publié un article on the subject this Sunday. Many bathers have seen the same phenomenon, described this time as “a kilometer long green line above the horizon“.
Meteorologist David Dehenauw, also a weather presenter, explains the phenomenon to our colleagues. “It’s a reflection of the sea“, he says. He compares this to the effect seen when looking at a road in intense heat. “With hot air over a road, you sometimes see a wet road surface, as the air on the road surface bends and reflects towards the eyes, so you see the air on the road surface. Just above the sea the air is now colder and you have the opposite. So the sea reflects in the sky and reflects towards your eyes“, says David Dehenauw.
Decidedly, the heat never ceases to surprise us. This Saturday it was dust devilssimilar to tornadoes, which surprised several witnesses.