A strange sun has been spotted loitering in the skies over Aber and many concerned and sky-gazing locals believe it’s a portent that Storm Ophelia is going to hit our little corner of the UK a lot harder than expected.

It’s mid-October and the temperature is tropical, there’s a strange light in the skies, the vibe is tense and strained and the balmy breeze carries the merest hint of the storm to come.

Hurricane Ophelia has already ravaged Ireland, and like a hell hound on the scent she’s rumoured to be passing our way sometime soon.

Experts believe we will only experience the tail-end of this fierce force of nature but the Chronicle’s weatherman Jonathan Powell is warning residents to experience high winds, including “min-tornado activity.”

But now a strange sun has been spotted and snapped in the heavens able the ‘Gateway to Wales’ and Abergavenny as a collective is getting, for want of a better word, twitchy.

A bewildered bystander in the town’s Fairfield car-park couldn’t stop starring at the fiery ball of gas this morning and explained to the Chronicle, “I first noticed it when I was studying the form of a passing pigeon and then I slowly became aware of this bright red ball. At first I believed I was hallucinating and put it down to the lump of rich cheese I had for breakfast but then I thought to myself, ‘Crikey Bill old boy! That’s the blooming sun that is.

“In all my 62 years I’ve never been able to stare so directly at the sun before without squinting. I just had to take a pic and bring it to the Chronicle’s attention.

“I know Storm Ophelia is on her way so it could possibly be something to do with that. Anyway you slice it though it’s bloody weird.”

Can you throw some light on this strange sun which is darkening, or should that be brightening the skies above Abergavenny?