Purple haze, don't know why? Here's the science behind the colourful fog seen in B.C.'s Okanagan

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Some residents of British Columbia’s Okanagan Valley were briefly enveloped in shades of pink and purple this morning.

In Kelowna, a pink-hued fog appeared for several minutes shortly after 7:30 a.m. PT before returning to the more standard grey.

“I thought, ‘OK, what’s going on out there?'” said Lise Guyot of her reaction when she saw the world turn pink through her window, before she snapped some photos.

“It looked surreal.”

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The pink fog appeared in parts of the Okanagan Valley at about 7:30 a.m. PT on Wednesday. (Lise Guyot)

In Penticton, about 60 kilometres south, the fog started out as purple at around 7:15 a.m. before changing to

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