Following a deliciously orange, rainy sunrise, early-morning sunshine spread across a beautiful Badlands foreground, while fractocumulus tufts drifted in and out of shadows from unseen clouds behind. Still damp to saturated from heavy rains the evening before, colorful bands in the mixed-source sedimentary formations emboldened their tones even more in the early sunshine. This scene was magical even for a magical place, with a sky more fitting for high-latitude marine air brushing the green Caledonian hills, not a semiarid and massively erosive landscape well over a thousand miles from the nearest ocean water. Yet the deeply landlocked geography soon took control of this situation. The cool, moist outflow heated up and mixed out under a high late-spring sun, evaporating the scud clouds and rendering a clear sky.
6 NW Interior SD (5 Jun 20) Looking WNW
43.798, -102.053