The nights are getting darker. And as a result, a local phenomenon has returned to Southport and the lands south of the Ribble Estuary.
Like something from a dystopian future, or a sci-fi movie, lots of people have been noticing the sky turning a bright shade of pink overnight. In recent weeks, several people have taken to social media – questioning the warm magenta hue glowing on the horizon.
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But it seems this isn’t the first time the fuchsia-coloured sky has appeared over the town. Initially, lots of people believed it could have been a result of a bizarre natural phenomenon.
However, it’s much more simple than that and it all comes down to tomatoes.
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Tomato plant Flavourfresh Salads, in Scarisbrick, has for the past year been using LED lights to help aid the growth of its award winning fruit, reported the Liverpool Echo in 2017. The lights, which are a mixture of blue and red, are used in the greenhouses and when combined appear bright pink.
When on, they can be seen for miles with people claiming to have seen the pink colour in the sky from Southport, Formby and even as far as Kirkby. Andy Liggat, nursery manager, at Flavourfresh previously explained: “The reason you get the beautiful coloured sky is because of the weather.
“If you get a nice clear night you won’t see it but if it is misty, raining or foggy the LED lights will shine on the cloud and that is what gives it that glow.
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“If you woke up at 5am and it was a nice clear morning you may see a tint of it but if you woke up to fog and looked, you would be like wow.”
Last night, the pink colour sky could be seen again with one driver saying they noticed the odd light when driving from Preston towards Southport. People were quick to comment on the picture that it was in fact the lights from Flavourfresh.
Inside the six and a half acre site there are 100,000 plants which on average produce 420 tonnes of tomatoes a year. The huge greenhouses have blackout screens on its windows, which are computerised to close at night which is when the LED lights come on.
The company, who produces the speciality crop for Asda and M&S, has been in operation since the mid 70s and was the fifth in the country to trial LED lights. In the greenhouses, which average at around 75 degrees Fahrenheit, there are around 3,000 LED lights which have replaced the previous high pressure sodium lights.
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