According to local media, the crimson sky seen in Zhoushan, China's east Zhejiang province, was generated by light refraction and dispersion, most likely from ship lights in the harbor.
Residents of Zhoushan were alarmed last weekend when they saw an eerie blood-red sky. The sky over the port city is scarlet in videos, thanks to the fog. According to accounts, the sky surrounding the port regions is the most crimson.
People were terrified as they captured the darkened horizon, which sparked apocalyptic worries.
Global Times claimed that people captured the skies becoming scarlet red from their homes, balconies, and streets.
The phenomenon's videos and photographs went viral, with more than 150 million views on China's Twitter-like social media platforms, Weibo and Sina, according to Global Times. Due to the Chinese government's handling of the COVID-19 outbreak, some users on Douyin, China's equivalent of TikTok, have termed the occurrence a "bad omen."
"I've never seen anything quite like that." "It astounds me that the sky can become red," a social media user stated, according to Global Times.
"When the weather is excellent, more water in the atmosphere generates aerosols, which refract and scatter the light of fishing boats, creating the crimson sky seen by the public," according to reports from the Zhoushan meteorological department.
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