Strange Red Glow In The Sky

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Refineries less so because its a more controlled process.-Its light pollutioncreated by light from sodium vapor street lightsbeing scattered and reflected by water molecules, cloudsor fog.Comparedto the lightpollution formmercury vapor street lights.as wasnormal 30 years ago.Red light pollution is lot less annoying than it used to be.......

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Realize now why POES imaging at NOAA wasnt linked to.
No way to see through that junk for the last 24 hours

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Sometimes landfills will burn off methane from buried decomposing garbage. Plausible, that could be a source that would seen at quite a distance in the atmospheric conditions you describe. Saturated atmosphere like that can reflect quite a bit of light like that at times. Moisture too, can inhibit combustion of methane and result in more red-orange-yellow flame, than the ideal blue color. Ive seen that here at both, dumps and some refineries that burn off waste. Refineries less so because it's a more controlled process.

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It's light pollution created by light from sodium vapor street lights being scattered and reflected by water molecules, clouds or fog. Compared to the light pollution form mercury vapor street lights. as was normal 30 years ago. Red light pollution is lot less annoying than it used to be. for some cities that sill have not completely replaced their street lights, like greater New orleans BEFORE Katrina, there is are still mercury vapor street lights in operation. The first thing i noticed when I went home the first time after Katrina in May, 2006 was the piles of appliances, carpets, and sheet wall piled on streets for pick up. The SECOND thing I noticed was the complete LACK of light pollution formLake vieww on the northeast horizon. My house is a little more than three miles from the Jefferson /Orleans parish line. along the 17th st canal that breached on the Orleans side. It almost breached on the Metairie side as well. 505 of east bnank jefferson parish flooded from open to the air canals going over their banks from the storm surge in Lake Pontchartrain.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_pollu…

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/1…

http://www.starrynightlights.com/lpIndex…

http://www.darksky.org/

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http://img-cache.cdn.gaiaonline.com/5eac…

The only explanation.

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Usually it's dust. The force of rain, or even a slight windstorm, might stir some dust up.

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