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I have captured this photograph for La Vanguardia Readers’ Photos of the sunrise in Montornès del Vallès, in the Vallès Oriental region, where it stands out how the reddish clouds want to make their way through the gray sky.
It is at this precise moment of dawn when the arrebol or candilazo occurs, 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, as this light passes through the clouds, it illuminates them and could be said to color them with those tones, in this case, just above the mountain.
The candilazo is also known as arrebol, which is the red color seen in the clouds illuminated by the sun’s rays, especially at dawn and in the evening.
