CHRISTIANNEWS.COM.- Unique weather conditions in the Chinese port city of Zhoushan turned the sky blood red earlier this week, leaving many of the city’s residents wondering if the end of the world had come .
A sense of panic could be heard in the voices of some of the residents as they recorded the eerie phenomenon, which was seen under thick layers of fog, according to The Daily Mail.
Others thought the red sky was a bad omen for China. The crimson sky quickly became one of the hot topics on Chinese social media as videos of the event garnered tens of millions of views.
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Some users of Douyin, China’s version of TikTok, called the red sky a bad omen about China’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, The Mail reported. new extreme lockdowns.
One user said it means “Accidents Will Happen,” and another added, “I started stocking up on supplies.” Local Chinese media later said that the blood-red sky was caused by the refraction of lights from fishing boats.
“When weather conditions are good, more water in the atmosphere forms aerosols that refract and scatter light from fishing boats and create the red sky seen by the public,” Zhoushan Meteorological Bureau staff said, according to the Global Times. .
Other users suggested that the rare occurrence could have been caused by particles still in the atmosphere from Tonga’s volcanic eruption in January. NASA has discovered that the effects of the Tonga eruption even reached space.
Another video shared by a user who was further away from the port, shows that it was not the entire sky above the city that was red, but only the part that was below the layer of fog.
Red sky 300 years ago
Historians have found 300-year-old documents from China, Korea, and Japan that contain eyewitness accounts of a similar event. According to the accounts, in September 1770, the skies of the region were dyed red and the event lasted for more than a week.
Researchers who studied the event told Live Science in 2017 that they theorized that the red skies were caused by a giant geomagnetic storm that rivaled the most powerful on record, the so-called Carrington Event of 1859.
The article explains that such magnetic storms occur when solar flares strike Earth’s magnetosphere, the layer of electrically charged particles trapped by Earth’s magnetic field.
The researchers speculated that if a Carrington-level solar storm were to hit Earth today, the resulting impact on power grids around the world would be devastating, leaving most people without power.
In Israel, commentators who heard about the latest blood-red skies in China mentioned a familiar Biblical reference. During historical events like this, Bible scholars often point to the Old Testament Book of Joel, where one verse describes “blood and fire and pillars of smoke” in the heavens.
Joel 2:30-31 (NIV) says: “And I will show wonders in heaven and on earth, blood and fire and pillars of smoke. The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great one and the terrible day of Jehovah is coming. [Hashem]».
Blood Moon will be seen this weekend in the US
Meanwhile, in the United States, amateur astronomers and other sky watchers will witness the first lunar eclipse of 2022 early Monday morning or Sunday night, depending on their time zone.
According to NASA, the full moon will appear red in both North and South America as well as Europe and Africa as part of a total lunar eclipse on May 15 and 16. A lunar eclipse is caused by the moon passing through the Earth’s shadow in space.
It will begin at approximately 9:32 pm ET on May 15. Most of the eclipse will be seen around 12:12 am Eastern Time. The totality of this eclipse will last 1 hour and 24 minutes. Some call this event a “super flower blood moon.”
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