Published 15:33 IST, September 10th 2020

San Francisco's orange sky pictures go viral; netizens compare it to movie scenes

San Francisco orange sky pictures by Christopher Michel have gone viral on Twitter. Here is how netizens have reacted to the pictures. Read.

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Pictures of San Francisco sky have been doing rounds on social media as city continues to see orange skies. mayor of San Francisco took to his social media and explained that combination of fog and smoke from wildfires were creating orange sky. Netizens flooded twitter with ir reactions after seeing pictures of Bay Area.

San Francisco orange sky turns orange

On Wednesday, numerous people took to social media and reacted to pictures of San Francisco sky. Photographer Christopher Michel on his verified Twitter account shared pictures that showed aerial view of city of San Francisco. pictures covered various parts of city from busy expressways to great tall buildings.

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pictures showed how even in morning, city was gloomy and dark. Captioning picture as " day sun didn’t rise in San Francisco", Christopher Michel tagged authorities of San Francisco and Bay Area. Netizens inundated post and pictures with ir comments and reactions check out pictures shared by Christopher's below.

pictures have gone viral on social media, with over 1,000 retweets over 280 ko tweets and over 2,000 likes on pictures. Several netizens expressed surprise at how city was looking within Orange sky while some or netizens exclaimed it as a scary atmosphere. Several or netizens commented on post saying that pictures look similar to scenes and sequences are shown in movies med on apocalypse. Check out some comments and reactions from Twitterati below.

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Several netizens breast photographer for capturing pictures of city. Several people commented that scenes looked biblical. Many or netizens from or parts of California commented on post and give an update about ir towns. A netizen had also claimed that bay area received some light for about 30 minutes when it had dawned in Oakland.

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Why was San Francisco sky orange?

local air quality ncy explained on Twitter that due to smoke high in atmosphere, smoke particles have scattered blue light. Furr allowing only yellow, orange and red light to reach surface of earth. Hence skies are looking orange.

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15:33 IST, September 10th 2020