Orange Orange Frenzy in England, What a Strange Phenomenon?

The sky across England suddenly looked unusual, turning orange on Monday 16 October 2017 local time. What strange phenomenon really happened? As quoted from CNN, Tuesday (17/10/2017), reddish color is a side effect of the remnants of Hurricane Ophelia and forest fires that raged in Portugal and northwestern Spain since Friday, October 13, 2017. Smoke and debris from a fire - mixed with sand from the Sahara Desert - was carried to the north by strong winds. The smoke, dust, and sand particles give the color redness. The red sun has been seen before in the UK, but the combination of events that made the orange sky phenomenon on Tuesday 17th October became very striking. The detected smoke trail extends over 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers). The health risks from changing the sky are not expected to be severe, as the smoke is mostly at very high altitudes in the atmosphere. With a gust of wind expected to change direction on Tuesday, the air tends to be clean. Users of social media then busy to upload the strange phenomenon of sky orange in England to Twitter and Instagram. "Sahara Desert Dust and Tropical Storm #Ophelia has brought #redsun (red sun) to Loughborough!" wrote Loughborough University on his Twitter account. "Love the weather in London today," writes Sylvester Martin. Journalist Rupert Myers also shared a picture of an orange sky above the River Thames in London. "England has returned to sepia," he wrote. Behind the phenomenon, the Hurricane Ophelia in Ireland and northern England turned out to have killed three people. The rare storm also left 360,000 people in Ireland cut off from electricity. Wind speed 160 kilometers per hour has hit Ireland on Monday 16 October 2017. In addition to the disrupted power grid, the storm also caused a number of other disturbances. More than 140 flights from Ireland airport had to be canceled. The storm that hit on Monday morning also forced the entire bus route in Dublin to be laid off at 10:00 am. Quoted from the BBC, the Irish Prime Minister, Leo Varadkar, described the impact of Hurricane Ophelia as a national emergency. The reason, schools and colleges have to be closed and congestion also occurs in a number of places. Ireland's Education Minister, Richard Bruton, announced that all schools and colleges will be closed until Tuesday, October 17, 2017. Afterwards, the Department of Education in Northern Ireland said that all schools will also be closed until Tuesday. Varadkar says, Ophelia is the worst storm ever to hit Ireland in 50 years and make people have to stay indoors. "The last time we were hit by a severe storm, 11 people died, so safety is a top priority," said Varadkar referring to Hurricane Debbie that occurred in 1961. Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney said the government had been given the directive that strong winds would cause large waves up to a height of 12 meters off the coast of Ireland. After hitting Ireland, Hurricane Ophelia arrived in Northern Ireland at 128 kilometers per hour. Approximately 18,000 homes in northern England were unpowered by electricity due to tissue cuts due to fallen trees. A tree also falls on the railway line at Lambeg. It disrupted the schedule of one of the busiest train lines in the region. A number of streets in the Northern Ireland capital, Belfast, were also closed due to flying a number of debris. The latest bridge that runs over the Foyle River in Derry is also closed. Thiis news is from line today