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I share in Las Fotos de los Lectores de La Vanguardia these photographs taken in the afternoon in Roses, in the Alt Empordà region, in which we can appreciate a curtain of crepuscular rays.
These rays descend from between the clouds and seem to illuminate the jetties where we can usually find fishermen or people taking a walk or taking pictures of the sunset.
The clouds, quite gray at that time, ended up only drizzling in a spring context in which the drought in Catalonia persists.
Crepuscular rays, in atmospheric optics, are rays of sunlight that appear to radiate from a single point in the sky. These rays, which flow through openings in clouds (especially stratocumulus) or between other objects. They are columns of sunlit air separated by dark cloud shadow regions.
The name comes from its frequent appearances during the twilight hours (sunrise and sunset), when the contrasts between light and dark are most obvious. Not in vain crepuscular comes from the Latin word crepusculum which means twilight.
