Spectacular sunset in Hawke's Bay
MetService meteorologist Ross Marsden explains the spectacular sunset on Saturday night. The sunlight was red because it shone through a "much thicker slab of atmosphere", and the shorter wavelength light had been scattered, leaving only the red long wavelengths. Wind conditions and high moisture content at high altitude produced a type of "mountain wave cloud", necessary for such an occurrence.
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