Is there an omen in the sky?
Residents in Wuhan, China, discovered in the early hours of the 15th that the sky outside turned blood-red, presenting an eerie sight.
Netizens speculated that it might be related to heavy fog.
According to the Xiaoxiang Morning Post, residents in Wuhan, Hubei Province, who had just finished their night shifts on the 15th, walked around the Hong Kong Road area along the riverbank and noticed something unusual. When they looked up, they saw the sky was blood-red, covered in a layer of red fog, a very eerie sight, which lasted for an hour.
In another video clip, the person filming pointed out that they were on the 21st floor of the pediatric ward at the Wuhan Children’s Hospital and captured the eerie sight of the blood-red sky. Many people exclaimed, “It looks fake,” and quickly woke up their families to see.
Chinese media reported that staff from the Hubei Meteorological Bureau said that the weather had been changing since the 15th, with strong convective weather. As for why the sky turned blood-red and why such a phenomenon occurred, further inquiries could be made to the Wuhan Central Meteorological Observatory.
Staff from the Wuhan Central Meteorological Observatory stated, “Regarding this (red) situation, it should not be related to the formation of fog. We have noticed the relevant videos and, based on preliminary judgments, the blood-red color in the footage has little to do with the formation of fog.”
The staff analyzed that it might be due to local (filming location) lighting. From a meteorological perspective, it generally would not produce such colored red light.
“I think this definitely is not a meteorological phenomenon, and there have been no observations of red fog. It is also not clear from the video footage about the external environment being filmed, and there might be red light appearing near the filming location.”