Residents of the coastal city of Zhoushan in eastern China were “stunned”, as the sky turned red for a brief period, “raising fears of a possible fire, or an unknown phenomenon,” according to the newspaper. The Independent British.
While officials in the region confirmed that no fire was reported in the coastal city, the sky turned red.
And spread on social networking sites, videos and pictures showing the sky in scarlet red, which prompted a Chinese diplomat to respond.
The Chinese Consul in Lebanon commented on this phenomenon, saying that it is a “reflection of light from fishing boats.”
Reflection of light from fishing boats only, nothing more, nothing less. pic.twitter.com/5NLzp3KEn4
— 曹 毅 CAO Yi Abu Waseem (@CaoYi_MFA) May 9, 2022
Meteorologists said the color came from “lights reflected from local boats on low clouds in the area.”
newspaper reported Global Times The Chinese said there was a “fishing boat in the water, reflecting scarlet lights” on the clouds.
Experts said that the weather in the coastal city of Zhoushan was perfect for the phenomenon of light reflection, as the sky was cloudy with water mist in the air, which led to an unusual redness of the sky, and caused a brief panic.
An expert explained that “good weather leads to the formation of more water in the atmosphere, and the mist scatter the light of fishing boats, and leads to the appearance of the red sky that people see.”
Other experts explained that “no geomagnetic or solar activity could be a possible reason why Zhoushan’s sky turned red.”
The phenomenon of the red sky has become one of the most popular topics on social media in China, with more than 150 million views of videos and images, according to the newspaper.