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Blood Rain Predicted To Fall In The United Kingdom This Halloween
Blood rain just before Halloween? While it may sound like a festive prank, forecasters are really predicting this bizarre weather occurrence.The phenomenon is actually a mix of red dust from the Sahara Desert blowing toward Europe. However, because it's supposed to rain, the dust will most likely mix with the precipitation causing red raindrops, or blood rain.
Other predictions include the blood rain spattering and staining cars to mixing with snow to create a gruesome winter wonderland.
"The warm air has been drawn from a long way south down in north Africa and is spreading north," London's Met Office forecaster Emma Sharples told news.com.au. "But there is going to be a sharp contrast in weather as a cold snap sweeps across the country from Friday, which is likely to bring snow to Scotland and the north of England."
This isn't the first time the U.K. has experienced blood rain. Throughout history it has been noted, and in earlier times was used to presage unfortunate events. In fact, as early as 685 the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle recorded "there was a bloody rain in Britain. And milk and butter were turned to blood. And Lothere, king of Kent, died."
Let's hope this year's blood rain is nothing more than an uncanny incidence.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Phyllis Kunz Oct 23rd 2012 2:29PM
The novel "RED RAIN" by R. Karl Largent is about The United States, Russia and
China rushing toward an explosive face-off; hopefully, not Iraq's WMDS now in
Syria.
Ianez Oct 23rd 2012 3:05PM
Awake from your dream....been reading too much.
Phyllis Kunz Oct 23rd 2012 3:39PM
@lanez Wake up," O Sleeper, and arise from the dead" Or you are a dead
man walking. BTW You might want to read LIVING BY FICTION by Annie Dillard
( I was quoting from Eph 5:14)
Sandy Little Oct 23rd 2012 3:23PM
I'll believe it when I see It !!!!!
metusmetu Oct 23rd 2012 3:24PM
It was not rain, but we had a similar occurrence in Wyoming about 5 years ago. We were having a particularly bad winter that year, quite a few "blizzards", during this one blizzard the wind was very vicious blowing away around 5 ft. of snow on the prairie right down to the soil. Then the soil started blowing in the air along with the snow, and wa-la, we had" brown snow!" It covered everything, and looked kind of cool at first, but as soon as it started to melt it made everything it touched look FILTHY DIRTY! All the buildings, vehicles, etc., had to be washed down eventually, problem was we had to wait for warm weather in order to do the washing. So everything outside looked like filth for quite a while.