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I have captured for La Vanguardia Readers’ Photos this panoramic photograph of the sunrise from Sant Boi de Llobregat, with the Mediterranean Sea in the background and the El Prat airport on one side.
You can even distinguish a plane that begins to take flight towards this reddish and orange sky that appears as the authentic red sea of ??clouds over this town in Baix Llobregat.
The spectacle of color in the sky is due to the candilazo, a meteorological phenomenon in which the clouds in the sky show a wide palette of colors that ranges from pink to the most intense orange.
As part of the phenomenon of dispersion of sunlight, in the morning and afternoon hours, when the sun is closer to the horizon, the light that reaches the Earth is of soft tones between red and orange. In a certain way, when this light passes through the clouds, it illuminates them and could be said to color them with those tones.
The candilazo is also known as arrebol. In this case, we also see how the sky is covered with a blanket of clouds for the most part, but, on one side of the image, we see that it is completely clear and of an intense yellowish color.
