Anyone ever seen this sort of thing before?

[Sp!ke]

If so what causes this phenomena?

This was taken by my father in law the other week from his front door. No colour enhancement, no photoshop, he said everything just turned orange for about 15 minutes.

 

[lxi]

At a guess, cloud catching the setting sun.

I once saw the most amazing phenomenon with sun refracting in ultra high cloud that was in fact ice crystals - net effect was random every colour of the rainbow across a lot of the sky which was otherwise blue (this was mid afternoon)

Perhaps this was something similar - hard to tell from the pic (which is spectacular) whether the orange is higher that the rest

 

[Howard]

That driveway looks steep

 

[moonloops]

god eating cheesy wotsits ?

 

[jay1983]

Like that scene from terminator 2 when Sarah Connor has that dream about the atomic bomb exploding!!!!

 

[brucemillar]

During the Foot & Mouth clear up we had similar as they burnt the slaughtered cows.

Prompting one local to comment "Red sky at night ? The cows are alight"

 

[Deleted member 37751]

If so what causes this phenomena?

This was taken by my father in law the other week from his front door. No colour enhancement, no photoshop, he said everything just turned orange for about 15 minutes.

I would say it's the suns rays being deflected through 'ready-to-rain' clouds.

Not too dissimilar to how a rainbow is seen.

 

[Dieselman]

In Blue Peter style, one I made earlier. 5:00am on 17.06.12

 

[alistairgd]

It's one of the better examples of the setting sun shining up onto the underside of clouds.

 

[grumpyoldgit]

A beautiful sunset which we don't see too often.

Here's one I took with my phone a couple of weeks ago. Again no editing. Maybe the same night?