Satellite captures scary image: 'Blood rain' may rain down on Western Europe

The ESA's Copernicus Atmospheric Monitoring Service (CAMS) said the "red specter" is expected to reach the Lesser Antilles volcanic arc of the Caribbean and Puerto Rico on May 16 and 17.

According to the Daily Mail, it was a giant dust cloud. After moving through the Caribbean, it will reach the Iberian Peninsula and Western Europe on May 20 and 21, causing fearsome blood rain in many places from May 20.

Satellite image shows a large red dust cloud moving towards Europe

CAMS Senior Scientist Mark Parrington told MailOnline: "Most of the dust travel can reach higher altitudes, leading to a more virtual open sky and an impact on surface air quality."

A similar red dust cloud made landfall in Western Europe in mid-March, turning the sky in many places a ghostly orange color, covering many cars and houses with fine red dust. So "blood rain" will be really scary because it can cause many outdoor things to become red residue after the rain stops.

England in a former red dust cloud

Dr Parrington further explains that the source of atmospheric dust depends on the wind patterns in the Sahara. The most active season is spring but dense dust clouds can also occur at other times of the year.

Dust clouds are formed when strong winds sweep sand and other organic sediments from the desert and send it into the troposphere of the atmosphere. Because at this time many places begin to rain, in addition to suffering because of dust, many countries have to endure the fact that these red dust clouds mix with the rain, becoming "blood rain".