Pink fog descends over the UK: Brits are baffled by rare weather,
Brits have been left baffled by a rare weather phenomenon that has turned the December skies into a brilliant rose colour.
‘Pink fog’ occurs when sunlight passes through fine material such as dust or moisture in the air, according to meteorologists at the Met Office.
‘When the sunlight comes through lots of layers, it filters out the blue and scatters it, leaving the red to come through,’ said Met Office spokesman Graham Madge.
‘It’s effectively a sunrise filtered through the atmosphere and through the fog, giving it that pinkish hue.’
On social media, Brits posted their snaps of the spectacular sight, which has blanketed the sky in regions across the southeast of England.
TikTok user @crazytailsuk insisted that their video clip had ‘no filter’ as the sky appeared as a brilliant Barbie-style shade.
One person replied to say ‘it was soooo pink this morning in Hertfordshire, while another said: ‘Sunrise pink fog…….. I would have been thrilled.’
Another TikToker joked that she was ‘up in the mountains’ and needed to be rescued as she walked down a residential street.
According to Madge, pink fog – effectively a sunrise filtered through the atmosphere – depends on local conditions and can be easily missed.
A pink fog previously covered parts of the south in early 2019, which needed people ‘to be in the right place at the right time’.
‘It will depend on the local conditions, and those conditions were optimal for a few lucky people to have witnessed it,’ he told the Sun at the time.
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