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Clouds of wind, sky lit at dawn in Fugurull, a farmhouse near Vilamirosa, in Manlleu (Osona), which is included in the Inventory of the Architectural Heritage of Catalonia.
As can be seen in The Readers’ Photos of La Vanguardia, a confluence of phenomena occurred this morning in the sky of Fugurull, with lenticular clouds, candlelight and crepuscular rays.
The sky seemed lit above this rectangular farmhouse of medieval origin. Vilamirosa is an old town in the Granollers de la Plana area, south of Manlleu, near Fugurull and the Vic road.
In 1178 it is known that it already had a mayor and that in 1301 it consisted of a small nucleus of seven houses and a building that belonged to the Hospitallers of Sant Joan.
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.
Lenticular clouds are called that because they are shaped like a lentil, as their name indicates, or there are also those who see them as a saucer or converging lens.
They are stationary and form mainly at high altitudes in mountainous areas and isolated from other clouds. Among mountaineers these clouds are considered a harbinger of a storm.
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 (especially stratocumulus) or between other objects. They are columns of sunlit air separated by dark regions of cloud shadow.
The name comes from its frequent appearances during twilight hours (sunrise and sunset), when the contrasts between light and darkness are the most obvious.
