IF YOU looked out of your window yesterday you may have noticed a strange red-tinged glow from the sun.

Members of The Oxford Mail's Camera Club have been busy snapping some stunning pictures of the strange sight from across the county.

Known as a 'hurricane sun', the hazy weather is understood to be the result of the tail-end of what was hurricane Ophelia heading for the UK.

Dust from Africa disturbed by Ophelia caused the sky to have an unusual red tint yesterday.

Amateur astronomer Mary McIntyre, who took the photo above of the yellow sun over the Warneford Hospital in Oxford, said: "I've never seen anything like it, in all the years I've been looking at the sky - it was absolutely stunning.

"My husband Mark said to me, it felt like we were on Mars."

According to the Met Office the dust scatters the blue light from the sun letting more red light through much as at sunrise or sunset.

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From Jean Douglas

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From Julia Johnson-Fry

What is your response?Storm Ophelia brought smoke from the Algarve and dust from the Sahara to produce a brilliant red sun and eerie skies across Oxford earlier today.

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Oxford Mail: Storm Ophelia brought smoke from the Algarve and dust from the Sahara to produce a brilliant red sun and eerie skies across Oxford earlier today.Storm Ophelia brought smoke from the Algarve and dust from the Sahara to produce a brilliant red sun and eerie skies across Oxford earlier today.
Oxford Mail: Storm Ophelia brought smoke from the Algarve and dust from the Sahara to produce a brilliant red sun and eerie skies across Oxford earlier today.Storm Ophelia brought smoke from the Algarve and dust from the Sahara to produce a brilliant red sun and eerie skies across Oxford earlier today.
Oxford Mail: Storm Ophelia brought smoke from the Algarve and dust from the Sahara to produce a brilliant red sun and eerie skies across Oxford earlier today.Storm Ophelia brought smoke from the Algarve and dust from the Sahara to produce a brilliant red sun and eerie skies across Oxford earlier today.
Oxford Mail: Storm Ophelia brought smoke from the Algarve and dust from the Sahara to produce a brilliant red sun and eerie skies across Oxford earlier today.Storm Ophelia brought smoke from the Algarve and dust from the Sahara to produce a brilliant red sun and eerie skies across Oxford earlier today.

From Mike Selby

What is your response?29th Floor of the Walkie Talkie in London. London in Sepia colour

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What is your response?Sun in Bladon, Woodstock

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What is your response?1pm in Northway, Oxford

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From Michelle Annison

What is your response?Hurricane Ophelia turning the sun and sky red/orange in Abingdon

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From Zoe Clarke

What is your response?Stanford in the Vale oxfordshire

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From Caroline Boutflour Stubbs

What is your response?In Nacton Village, Suffolk. Quite a sight

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From Chloe Jilbert

What is your response?Taken in didcot.

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From Josie Leanne

What is your response?Abingdon

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From Herra Kamran

What is your response?The sun has turned dark orange with a bit of red. All those people who looked at the sun with their bare eyes are now feeling dizzy and got a weird headache and they also said that they can feel the earth moving really fast.

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Oxford Mail: The sun has turned dark orange with a bit of red. All those people who looked at the sun with their bare eyes are now feeling dizzy and got a weird headache and they also said that they can feel the earth moving really fast.The sun has turned dark orange with a bit of red. All those people who looked at the sun with their bare eyes are now feeling dizzy and got a weird headache and they also said that they can feel the earth moving really fast.
Oxford Mail: The sun has turned dark orange with a bit of red. All those people who looked at the sun with their bare eyes are now feeling dizzy and got a weird headache and they also said that they can feel the earth moving really fast.The sun has turned dark orange with a bit of red. All those people who looked at the sun with their bare eyes are now feeling dizzy and got a weird headache and they also said that they can feel the earth moving really fast.

From Barbara Lawrence

What is your response?A spooky day in Chalgrove yellow sky, red sun and the car dashcam filming in green,

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What is your response?I took this picture from my house in Oxford

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What is your response?Taken in didcot

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What is your response?Taken from Abingdon

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From Jenny Cross

What is your response?Taken in Deddington at 11am & 2nd photo just now at 14.40

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From Donna Minnd

What is your response?Pictures of the sun from my back garden at 2.40pm.. in blackbird leys oxford

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From Lee metcalf

What is your response?View in Carterton about 1pm

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From B James

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From Helen Waite

What is your response?The sun above Abingdon Museum in the market square this morning

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From Emma Titcombe

What is your response?View from basement in Oxford this morning.

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From Lauren Jeffery

What is your response?It’s an eerie day out there

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From Sharron Morgan

What is your response?It got very dark earlier and seems to be getting that way again. An amazing sight to see!!

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What is your response?Not a great picture but this is kirtlington

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From Harvey Warfield

What is your response?the sun in Witney this morning

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From Hayley Pitman

What is your response?Blackbird leys.

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From Jackie Simmons

What is your response?Eerie sky over North Oxford

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From Gemma Holden

What is your response?Taken outside Tesco Abingdon

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From Ritchie Florey

What is your response?Grove, Oxfordshire

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From Bev Taylor

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From Tim Nicholls

What is your response?Red Sun over the Coal Stage at Didcot Railway Centre

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From Amy Oliver

What is your response?Red sun in kidlington

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From Emma Stokes

What is your response?St Clements- very creepy feeling today was th the wierd light

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From Jacqui Hepburn

What is your response?Top pic with camera, bottom pic with iPhone but red was too intense.

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From Robert Lee

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