Wednesday 14 August 2019

If You Woke Up 4 Hours After Sunrise,

and looking out of your window saw this what would you think?


 the end of the world perhaps? this is exactly what the people of Siberia’s Verkhoyansk district saw at around 8 in the morning, when normally the sun at that latitude rises at 04.00 AM, but they were not too alarmed, it happened before, a similar phenomenon occurred in the region just over a year ago,

 in July, Verkhoyansk and other Yakutian regions experienced another pitch black morning, in fact some people took to social media to ask if this is becoming some sort of weird tradition,

although there is yet no official explanation for the bizarre sunless morning, weather experts believe it may be related to the forest fires raging over Siberia, apparently, the high amounts of carbon monoxide in the atmosphere may have led to the rapid formation of unusually thick clouds that blocked the sun out completely,


“This situation can be compared to what is happening during cloud spiking which is done to cause rain,” Yevgeny Tishkovets, the chief specialist of Russian weather service Fobos, told the Yakutia-24 TV channel. “The cloud cover was as thick as it can possibly be, add to this the wildfires smoke and precipitation. This is still, of course, rather approximate and we need to analyse what happened in a lot more detail.” the Fobos weather center did record a high concentration of carbon monoxide in the region – 7.19mg/m3 compared to the allowed maximum of 5mg/m3 – but it doesn’t seem like an extreme enough level to cause what looked like a total eclipse, well at least as it has happened once before, so it can not be the end of the world, or could it?


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