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Spectacular sunrise with crepuscular rays, haze and candilazo over the Manlleu station, in Osona, a succession of meteorological phenomena that we can see in this series of photographs in Las Fotos de los Lectores de La Vanguardia.
The phenomenon of crepuscular rays also receives other names, such as Jacob’s ladder or God’s fingers, and it also occurs at sunset.
Crepuscular rays, in atmospheric optics, are rays of sunlight that appear to radiate from a single point in the sky. These rays flow through openings in clouds (mostly stratocumulus) or between other objects. They are columns of sunlit air separated by dark cloud shadow regions.
The name comes from its frequent appearances during the twilight hours, in this case dawn, when the contrasts between light and dark are most obvious. It is not for nothing that crepuscular comes from the Latin word crepusculum which means “twilight”.
For its part, the candilazo is a meteorological phenomenon in which the clouds in the sky show a wide palette of colors that goes from pink to the most intense orange.
The third phenomenon is the haze. This clouding that can be observed in the sky is caused by the irruption into the atmosphere of an episode of suspended Saharan dust.
