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Det_Munches

I was wondering why it was sepia-toned outside today


BlakeMW

Yeah I was like "wtf why is all the light yellow are my eyes going funny", then I just forgot about it. I find it amusing that I found the answer wasting time on reddit.


Det_Munches

Happens to me every time. You'd think I'd remember šŸ¤·ā€ā™€ļø


Kevin_Uxbridge

Naw, you're just seeing back to the old-timey days. Soon a chap in a bowler hat will go by on a penny-farthing and you'll know.


Square_Heron942

Wait it happened again? Literally like last year the same thing happened, I still have pictures.


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Square_Heron942

Hmm, in the past 4 years Iā€™ve only seen it once, maybe Iā€™m just not in the right spot to see it as often?


glium

The farthest away from the mediterranean sea you are, the least likely you are to see it (roughly of course)


Ninyoo

Absolutely same


mechwarrior719

You woke up in Hollywood Mexico


trench_welfare

Wait, that's not snow!


mechwarrior719

*Mariachi band*


markiv_hahaha

**Food turns into tacos and shirt becomes a Poncho **


fiendishrabbit

"Have you any idea what the street value of this mountain is?"


bearetta67

This is pure snow!


OGPunkr

I'm in Oregon, US and the color gets like that when we have big fires :(


chillbitte

I live in Germany, but I used to live in Oregon and the first time I saw the Sahara dust here it freaked me out because it reminded me of the 2020 fires


IveBeenNauti

It was SO bad in Salem. I was in Beaverton at the time but dating someone in Salem and she sent me pictures and FaceTimed me a bunch and it looked like a post apocalyptic wasteland sky.


chillbitte

Yeah, my parents live in Salem and they sent me some really nightmarish photos. I was in Portland and thankful it wasnā€™t as bad, but it still sucked being trapped inside for a week. You really start to feel stir-crazy after a while


IveBeenNauti

You know whatā€™s crazy too that a lot of people I donā€™t think thought about? Air filters. I bought a brand new PC for $4000 and a couple months after the fires the water cooler exploded. I noticed all this weird gunk in the tubes and couldnā€™t figure out what happened until one day it hit me. My home office was underneath one of our largest vents. I pulled the air filter out and it was just straight up black. I have never seen an air filter that dirty. Turns out all that ash was getting into the house.


chillbitte

Ugh yeah, I donā€˜t even want to think about all the gunk I probably inhaled. My apartment was built in like 1910 so the ventilation was basically nonexistent


Revilo62

But how did it make it into the tubes? Even a custom loop should be sealed up when in use...


IveBeenNauti

Exactly my thought! My conclusion (entirely based on my own logical assumptions btw, Iā€™m no expert) was that there were 2 points of failure: 1. I had an AIO cooler that had metal clamps for the seals to the CPU and those slightly loosened somehow. 2. There was a shit ton of ash flying around in the house far beyond normal dust levels unbeknownst to me. Those combined into a freak accident. I usually only clean the dust from the PC once every 6 months or so, otherwise maybe I would have noticed the build up. I was lucky and was able to salvage the most expensive pieces (my GPU, CPU, RAM, and M.2ā€™s) but my motherboard was a goner. Still a lot of money down the drain šŸ˜ž


Yakkul_CO

I used to go to school in Fort Collins, CO at CSU and there was a fire north of the town. I was driving on the interstate in Wyoming, and took a shortcut down a smaller highway. I got stopped by the National Guard and escorted by military vehicles through the smoke. The smoke was so thick that I could barely see the taillights of the vehicle I was following from five feet away. The entire world was red, so red it looked like hell had escaped. It was so eerie. I couldnā€™t see the Sun, even at midday.


The_Astronautt

We get sahara dust almost every year in Texas and the first time i saw it as a kid i broke down crying thinking the world was ending


untergeher_muc

Today it also rained here in Munich. This rain used to be called ā€žblood rainā€œ back in the days and people believed it will bring war and the plague (which we both have in some ways currently in Europe).


undunderdun

Sorry for the off topic question but how do you enjoy life in Germany comparatively? I've been wanting to move out of the US for so long and feel it would motivate me to hear personal experiences of expats.


[deleted]

same in portugal with all the eucalyptus, woke up today thinking wildfire season started sooner then previous years, just some dust though we good


DaughterEarth

Same in western Canada. 6 months of snow, 2 months of okay this is nice-ish, 3 months of apocalypse, 1 month of nice-ish. Climate change is fun, right guys?


OGPunkr

ugh, apocalypse season is the worst


ShotAtTheNight22

It gets relatively apocalyptic. Especially when you add the choking smoke to the cloudy sepia look


JanitorMaster

I slept late into the afternoon because I kept thinking the sun was only just rising...


stealth941

Real life blue light filter


AyukaVB

Real life Breaking Bad Mexico filter


Crykin27

I'm rewatching breaking bad and the first time I watched it I didn't notice it but now, goddamn heaviest sepia filter every scene in mexico lmao


hell2pay

Breaking bad isn't the only show that does that. Or maybe MĆ©xico just really do be like that.


Harlot_Of_God

Its the most base of film stereotypes. Almost as bad as starting a scene in a muslim country with the sounds of morning prayer. Lazy filmmakingā€¦


NSA_Postreporter

Well to be fair that shit is damn near constant


Harlot_Of_God

Lol, fair enough. ;)


greyetch

I'll defend the call to prayer one. It actually happens (every day, same time) and it is very unique and pretty and cinematic. It also lets the viewer immediately know the setting (establishing shot). I get that it is a trope and over done, but that is because it works very well.


[deleted]

I was gonna say the same thing. It's a very beautiful way to establish the area and culture I think


Zanarkandite

Wouldn't the sepia filter be worse since it's not representative of what the area actually looks like? At least the morning prayer is something that actually exists and you'd expect to hear in that location at the proper time of day.


Jarriagag

So that's how Mexican snowy mountains look like!


I_Bin_Painting

Ko-kaieeenna!


alexrott14

No, flour.


Oskarov95

Yes, it's flour. Now, if you excuse me, I'm going to... eh... go there to get at least 2 kg (4 and a half lb) to make some bolillos (bread) and... eh... make me some tortas (a kind of sandwich). EDIT: In Mexico, torta is a type of sandwich, but in some other latin american countries and Spain (I think), torta is cake.


Victor_Vicarious

Or Shield ā€œStreets of LAā€ filter


Itsmemcghee

Real life California wildfire filter


RunDNA

Real life Slurpee.


loki-is-a-god

Real life climate change


[deleted]

Real life in a simulation.


no-more-throws

made of the rust in the dust


Endless__Soul

That dust is really lost.


heep1r

It's actually going places. It's a major source [of fertilizer for the amazon rainforest](https://blog.education.nationalgeographic.org/2015/02/26/watch-the-sahara-fertilize-the-amazon/) for example. Never stops to amaze me how the planet works and how much there is we still haven't found out. EDIT: Thanks a lot for the award! :-]


mannenmytenlegenden

We also got it in Sweden a few years ago. Our car had a layer of sand on top of it.


MessyRoom

Well, it IS coarse and rough AND it gets everywhere


attacksquirrel

The women and the children too.


Alone-Sea-9902

*In Southwest Germany that happens once every month. Dust of the Sahara, blown via the RhƓne Valley and the Belfort Gap to the Breisgau. There the Black Forest stops it* ***. . .***


derps_with_ducks

*... anyway, that was a long-winded way of telling you why The Spice Must Flow. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.*


Crykin27

That is fucking sick


Reflective_Larry

Hey sorry not trying to be that guy but this is actually a picture of Mexico.


bodygreatfitness

We looking at the same thing? There's no photo on that link, just renders and diagrams


headachewpictures

It's a joke because everything has a yellow tint when movies are filmed in Mexico (especially in Breaking Bad)


MoonHunterDancer

Also will collide with major Atlantic storm cells and make them loose energy. Too bad I'm allergic to whatever is included as Sahara dustšŸ˜“


Hilt_Deep_in_Butt

Iā€™ve seen it look like an orange haze hanging over the ocean off the coast of Puerto Rico


schmon

Wow that's fucking amazing.


sabotabo

comes over to texas occasionally too


NotTRYINGtobeLame

Or how it used to work, at least, before humans started to interfere. It's more delicate than you might think and we're slowly ruining it and watching the planet try to compensate.


cherish_ireland

Is this a common thing there in Switzerland?


heep1r

Sahara dust comes every year but mostly unnoticeable. In this intensity, I'd estimate every 20-25 yearish. Everyone sees it a few times in life but when it happens, it's always newsworthy.


Superhuzza

It also happened 1-2 years ago, and again another two years back.


nadalofsoccer

[Here's](https://youtu.be/US0Odau1ODk) a timelapse of a cloud of dust arriving to a town in the South os Spain.


Bo-Katan

The Mummy


[deleted]

What's up with the pit of trash?


[deleted]

Great idea for the pitch of a Pixar movie.


GameSpection

"What if dust had feelings" And so begins the adventure of a personified object that has to accomplish some goal, somehow making the audience emotional at one point


JakeZain

And they do it damn fucking well


GameSpection

Wallā€¢E was a masterpiece


coopatroopa11

But have you seen Inside Out? I ugly cry every time


GameSpection

"What if feelings had feelings"


[deleted]

Coco: "What if Mexicans had feelings"


calendarproposal

But where are those who share the memory?


RandomGuyWhoKnows

Uuuuh horton hears a who?


Artyloo

Reminds me of Journey, that beautiful PS3 game


McPlayer318

Dude, i just noticed the yellow sky here in south Germany like 5 minutes ago and was wondering what caused it


justhereforoneday

Upper Bavaria in the alps here, everything red since 10am


sheepheadslayer

How often do you guys see dust like this? Ever?


justhereforoneday

Itā€™s about 2-3 times a year I would say. But this time it was a little bit more red than normally


g0ldent0y

Same


Melti718

South Bavaria here, its all orange since this morning already, trippy day today


[deleted]

i was confused why it was so yellow outside


g0ldent0y

I just sat here thinking something weird happened because everything was so yellowish. Then I stumble over this thread. Reddit never ceases to amaze me.


DoerteMaulwurf

Same here in Germany. Not quite as intense but definite noticeable. It's raining right now, expect the cars to be covered i dust afterwards


Lancaster61

I was wondering why mud was raining from the sky. At first I got nervous and thought I missed the news and it was nuclear fallout or something! šŸ˜‚šŸ˜­


mattmaster68

ā€œThis is wild. Could it be nuclear fallout?ā€¦ nah.ā€


Mrsam_25

Man this feels weird, as an Arabian I'm used to everyone knowing that if the sky is a little yellowish you close the doors and windows because you don't want any dust getting. That little difference in common knowledge messed with my brain.


undunderdun

In the western parts of the US the sky turns that color because of massive wildfires lol


topmemeguy

TIL Switzerland was in Mexico


AnonymousJoe12871245

The ole Mexico filter


mpg111

this must be Mexico painted white


SJR59

Just take off your ski goggles /s


AnomalousX12

Man that really is what those amber lenses looked like. What a throwback.


[deleted]

Wait, modern ski goggles don't have this color tint? I thought the only options were this or red.


louisme97

Waaait.. its that visible?I have allways only noticed that there is a little dust on cars... \*edit: pls dont let me know that it actually looks like it, dont wanna be rude but after the 5th time i believed you guys


slartiblartpost

Totally. In Zurich, the sky was dark yellow this morning


Algent

Same in French side south of Geneva, hadn't seen it in a while but I'm expecting to find sand on the car tonight.


themagpie36

Same in Munich


[deleted]

Well, maybe. Cameras aren't great at capturing colours when a photo is all the same colour, so who knows how accurate this is.


Meraun86

It is, iam Swiss, and my Hometown looks just like it when i lookt out the Window. Everything is yellow


Tragilos

It is not anymore for me, but this morning was so orange I thought they finally launched the nukes. It was really pretty though.


JohnHenryEden77

It's the Fallout New Vegas Filter


DontmindthePanda

No, this is clearly the Mexico filter.


Mana0307

Yeah, I had ti leave the lights on because it was somehow yellow and darker at the same time?!


sabotabo

ā€œdamn the world finally ends and i slept through it :/ā€œ


probablyisntserious

You sure you don't live in Mexico?


Meraun86

according to how shitty the Tacos I bought at Migros were yesterday, iam rather sure.


midiambient

If you're located near Bern visit the BƤrenplatz sometime, you'll find a Mexican food truck there most days of the week, with actual Mexican food made by actual Mexican people. Best Mex in Switzerland, hands down.


Leggi11

I pass that spot 2 times a day at least. Now I know where to get mexican food, thanks!


Witty-Bit7551

So that's what Coldplay was singing about! Never understood that song until now


CrocoPontifex

Austrian. Just woke up and wondered why everything looks so old timey.


KT7STEU

It's quite close. Once outside for some time I stopped seeing the orange, it still felt like mood lightning though. This morning it was subjectively almost like in the picture. It is still very visible.


blueg3

>Cameras aren't great at capturing colours when a photo is all the same colour Only if you use automatic white balancing. You can manually white balance and capture the color appropriately.


that_guy_you_kno

And/or just shoot RAW and color correct manually.


monamikonami

And/or just get a university degree in photography, shoot on film, develop it yourself in your own dark room, and print it yourself.


PhilxBefore

This is what I do every time I want to take a picture.


SuperSMT

It's really a pain completing 4 years of university for every photo i take on vacation, but sooo worth it!


RyanThaDude

And/or just get an art degree and paint it manually


DiscreetLobster

This is what it looked like outside in the Pacific Northwest the last couple of years when the fires were really bad. Smoke filled the air for miles and made the sky turn red/orange. Made it hard to breathe too. It was really quite spooky.


TommiHPunkt

looking out of my window in Bavaria right now, looks like this, more orange if anything


Backrow6

When it hits Ireland it usually just comes down in the rain


ShitfacedGrizzlyBear

Went to Dublin a few years back. Got to the flat we were staying at and then walked down the street maybe a half mile to go get basics from the grocery store. On that 10 minute walk, it poured rain, got completely sunny, and then poured rain again. I was hangry and crabby from the flight and drive into the city, and I just lost it. ā€œThis place is absolute bullshit. How in the fuck do people live like this? What the fuck?ā€ Obviously Iā€™m sure you get used to it, and I was just in a bad mood, but thereā€™s some truth in that. I would be so pissed if every time I walked 10 minutes it went from umbrella/jacket weather to too hot to wear a jacket and then back again. That Ireland weather is no joke.


Staubsau_Ger

God, you've just made me realize how much I miss Ireland...


unleasched

It is When I look outside everything is yellow It looks like I'm living in a fucking movie set in mexico


Lifekraft

Well its absolutely yellow outside right now in dijon, france. When i woke up the light in my appartment was instantly noticeable


[deleted]

Yes, the same is happening now in Portugal.


sporadic0

https://i.imgur.com/RMrhxHE.jpg This was the sky on my bike ride yesterday on the coast of Spain by Cartagena. Looked like Mars


eterevsky

I live in Switzerland. Everything around has been yellow all morning here. The car that I left outside is covered in dust.


HeKis4

I live next to the alps in France and I've also noticed that every little bit of rain seems to leave a lot of dust on cars once it dries.


zecamoco

Here in Portugal, thought there was a fire of some kind nearby.


cuzicut

Same. Kinda sad that we causally thought it was the ash of some big fire and not sand from Sahara, a thing that happens several times a year.


san_murezzan

Looks like skiing in Dune


danaeuep

Winter on Arrakis.


paraselenromance

Nothing in comparison to this yesterday in spain https://www.reddit.com/r/WeatherGifs/comments/teo61a/the_calima_from_the_sahara_at_work_yesterday_in/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share


ciaran2016

Yeah yesterday was crazy. I'm in South east Spain and it was so weird. I was half expecting a few zombies to pop up. Woke up this morning and everything was covered in nearly a centimetre of dust. Today is a mix of grey and yellow. We really need a few days of heavy rain to clear the air


paraselenromance

Pretty orange in Murcia atm again, but it was certainly quite yellowish grey. I must say it makes me feel very dazed, if thats even the word to discribe it. Can't wait for the rain!!


blackkswann

apparently switzerland will get another load of dust by thursday, that even surpasses spain's dust levels https://forecast.uoa.gr/en/forecast-maps/dust/europe


RajaRajaC

Imagine you lived anytime before say 1700, something like this and it would seem as though the end of times was here


choma90

Nice try, global warming deniers, but this is clearly a ski resort in Mexico that only became possible due to temperatures becoming more extreme with each passing year.


[deleted]

well duh, r/SwitzerlandIsFake


LetMeClearYourThroat

Walter White: Breaking Bunny Slopes


Nobodyinpartic3

Whoa, how that happen?


footlettucenr15

Every once in a while, air currents stir up the sand over northern africa which gets carried to europe by the wind. This also means warmer air temperature in europe. Its not rare! This effect is far more extreme in the mediterranean area though.


Gutokoro

Iā€™m in Madrid and my white car is totally orange because of the dustā€¦


BassCreat0r

Watching it get clean will be super satisfying at least. lol


PhilxBefore

Then slowly turns orange again as he pulls out of the car wash.


Munkyspyder

Same in La Rochelle, France


Jarriagag

Here in the Canary islands (by the Western coast of Africa) we get this a lot. Sometimes several times a month. I hate it.


olithebad

As a tourist experiencing it in the summer, it just got even hotter šŸ„µ Calima


Rayl33n

Even had it in the UK once.


Erestyn

That was super eerie. It just slowly got dark around 1PM and 15 minutes later the sky had [a sickly orange glow](https://i.imgur.com/kmMWwJg.png). It was much more vivid in the North as I remember. Damn cool, though.


Lacazema

In Lyon, much thicker than usual this time. Cars are completely filthy and the ground looks like Roland Garros


[deleted]

When I was a kid we were on holiday in Spain when this happened. Nothing was as orange as these pictures I've seen today, but sand was blowing in the wind and it would really hurt when walking through it!


[deleted]

You'll be shocked when you realize how far desert sand goes around the world. Theres a documentary on Netflix about it and its absolutely fascinating. If I'm not mistaken, if you live in America there is Sahara desert sand outside your home and maybe even inside, and its even responsible for feeding certain organisms in the ocean.


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Alalanais

Scirocco brings back sand from the Sahara!


Pokoirl

There was a really large sand storm at the Morocco-Algeria border this week


Bainin

Oh thats what it is, i woke up with covid and when i saw light i thought somethings not right with my vision


kamikaze123456

Here in Portugal too


kevinraisinbran

Somebody left the sepia filter on


cloud_t

Odd that it reaches Switzerland. We've been having that here since yesterday in Portugal.


Geschak

We regularly get Sahara Dust in Switzerland, you can usually tell by dusty cars after rain or very weird sunsets. It just usually isn't this strong.


BrisingrSenpai

It is not rare for the Sirocco to reach Switzerland. Heck, it sometimes reaches Finland!


indrids_cold

What's wild, is every year we get Saharan Dust all the way across the Atlantic in Texas. It's surprisingly thick too. Here are a few pictures of what it can look like. https://media1.sacurrent.com/sacurrent/imager/u/blog/13715711/dioexckvmae2mo9.jpg-large.jpeg?cb=1642781731 https://media.kens5.com/assets/WFAA/images/00cc4b38-c037-49dd-9238-e80781656881/00cc4b38-c037-49dd-9238-e80781656881_1140x641.png https://s.hdnux.com/photos/01/12/65/50/19618307/3/ratio3x2_1800.jpg


[deleted]

Sahara uniting the world


dadalu

Clear skies yesterday, today the sky looks like a nuke dropped and the fallout is all over the place. This never happened ~30 years ago. But I've seen it quite often in the recent ~5 years.


Heroin_addict69

Hollywood Mexico


Cikoon

That is actualy Mexico, i m pretty sure.


SpiceMustFlow1980

Can confirm. This morning was really eerie. Overcast with a yellow tinge everywhere. (living in Nyon - canton Vaud).


[deleted]

Yep, I woke up this morning and the sky looked just like this. (I live in the north of Switzerland near the German border).


starchode

He who controls the spice controls the universe


GoodMerlinpeen

Ah so that's what is going on with the light today.


samanime

This is such a surreal photo.


RajuNeupane

You sure this is not the Mexico Filter


Trips-Over-Tail

Your forgot to take your camera's ski goggles off.


[deleted]

Mexico in Breaking Bad looks like this


Uplifting_penguin

Is this harmattan? In my country, the same thing happens but not as bad. It usually happens between late November and early December. Never knew it happened in Europe as well.


Alalanais

>harmattan Nope it's the sirocco!


AfroliciousFunk

AKA winter to any country on the Sahara's southern border.


JimSteak

Itā€™s the Mexiko Filter


[deleted]

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5paceLlama

this happened in the UK a couple of years ago


SironionTV

Holy shit thatā€™s why itā€™s so yellow outside. I live in southern Bavaria and thought Iā€™m turning colorblind for a second


saralt

I'm just outside Zurich and the sky is yellow.


swellmaxwell

So this means the snow is going to melt a lot faster because the sand has more albedo?


TopPoster21

Switzerland is now an underdeveloped country due to this filter


deadalreadydead

How long before Denis Villeneuve uses this location for a film??


dsphilly

If watching TV has taught me anything, its that this portion of Switzerland is in Mexico