This is blood rain
On Thursday it rained red on the Danish island of Fyn.
The phenomenon that has hit our beloved neighboring country is referred to as bloodshed, and there is a very special reason why it is in Denmark.
The red drops come from far away.
According to the duty officer at the Meteorological Institute, Haldis Berge, the red rain originates from dust particles from the Sahara desert.
– A large cloud of dust from the Sahara is heading north across Europe, and can reach as far north as us. It may be the blood rain, or the blood snow as it is also called, will hit us tomorrow, Berge told Dagbladet on Thursday night.
Yr’s meteorologists went out on Twitter and said that the dust particles could hit Norway on Friday.
Wait with the car wash
according to Large Norwegian encyclopedia so is «blood rain, and blood snow, rain and snow of reddish color which leaves a reddish sludge on the ground. This may be due to dust that has been whirled up from deserts or the like, and which is carried by high air currents to distant places. “
SNL writes that it is very easy to see the red particles on snow, or dried out puddles.
The dust cloud has been pulled away from northwestern Africa and all the way to Danish Funen due to the storm “Celia”, which has been covered by Dagbladet earlier this week.
What is called an “exceptionally” large cloud of dust from the Sahara desert can quickly color snow in southern Norway red on Friday.
Then it might be smart to postpone the car wash for a day or two.
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– Does not need rain or snow
– It is not safe to find all the way to Norway, but it is certainly a probability. If the particles come to Norway, we do not need rain or snow, because then the dust particles will settle as a layer on the surface, says meteorologist Berge.
In Spain, the locals describe how the sand makes it difficult to breathe outdoors and that it crunches between your teeth if you are outside, writes Danish TV 2.
The sand is also observed in France and Germany, but in smaller quantities.