The greatest secret behind a sudden solar eclipse in Siberia

The sun was blocked in the Arctic, Siberia, locals in northern Yakutia said that daylight had completely disappeared for several hours, according to the Siberian Times.

For the Russian Republic of “Yakutia” (which is also called “Sakha”), which is part of “Siberia” which is home to the oldest cities in the world, the month of July is a welcome respite from the winter that lasts seven months; It starts from October to April.

It is a rare time of the year when locals can get out of the house without the risk of their glasses freezing on their faces, a time when the merciful sun can hang in the sky for more than 20 hours a day instead of less than two.

Imagine the confusion and disappointment, when locals in at least two districts of “Yakutia” went out on Friday noon, on July 20th, and saw the sun completely disappear for 3 hours.

According to the regional news site “Yakutia 24”, the “Evino-Bittantaski” and “Chygansky” districts in “Yakutia” entered inexplicably in 3 hours of mysterious darkness between 11 am and 2 pm local time on Friday.

Pictures provided by bewildered locals show little more than the black shadows of trees and buildings hanging over a reddish nebula from the sky, in addition to the sinister atmosphere, the air looked thick with a dirty nebula of black dust.

According to what eyewitnesses said to the strange event of the news site Sakha Daily News: “It was impossible to be on the street,” and other residents reported that the sky suddenly became dark black in their homes, to the point that the mysterious smog turned the water barrels into mud barrels. And that the nearby lakes came out from the eclipse covered with a dirty black layer of pollution, what a happy summer!

So, what was behind this mysterious eclipse? While a resident blamed Satan for the accident, there is a more likely culprit: the multiple forest fires around Yakutia and elsewhere in Siberia, The Siberian Times reported.

Between 5-9 July of 2018, a massive smoke cloud was released by a series of Siberian wildfires halfway around the globe, passing through Alaska and into central Canada, according to NASA's Earth Observatory.

As NASA's Earth Observatory reminds us, it's the season of wildfires in Siberia, and hundreds of fires have already burned tens of thousands of hectares of forest since May (a hectare or acre is a unit of volume for measuring the area of ​​farmland).

While most of these fires occur hundreds of miles from eclipse cities and are covered in dust, the smoke and aerosols released by some of these fires have been tracked at half the distance around the globe.

One set of fires burning on July 3rd created a massive smoke cloud; It spread over five thousand miles (or eight thousand kilometers) within 11 days, passing through northeastern Russia, through “Alaska” and into central “Canada” before the beginning of its weakening stage.

NASA scientists wrote; That a smoke cloud of this size could easily shade the ground beneath it and fill the air with polluting gases.

However, as of (July 23), no definitive conclusions have been reached about the incomprehensible eclipse in Yakutia.

Siberia has its share of strange accidents, from the bag full of severed hands that appeared in the snow in March, to the rain showers of gold bars that rained from the sky.

Industrial Siberia has some long-term pollution issues (look at the “bloody rain” from industrial rust that fell into a factory parking lot just a few weeks ago), so this blackout could simply be the result of a combination of factors. Hopefully, the Devil isn't one of them.