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I share in La Vanguardia’s Readers’ Photos this photograph of the candlelight at dawn at the Barcelona-El Prat airport, with the reddish sky and the deforming sun illuminating the planes during air operations.
The image not only captures the essence of the activity at the Barcelona airport, but also one of the most spectacular meteorological phenomena in the twilight hours.
The candilazo is 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 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, which is the red color seen in clouds illuminated by the sun’s rays, especially at dawn and in the evening.
