This would become a spectacular sunrise over Mount Desert Island, but was well on its way even here. The sun still was below the horizon, even from the perspective of the altocumulus and altostratus cloud deck’s underside! So how did it redirect such a rusty, chocolate-red tint? This was all indirect light, reflected from distant, unseen, directly lit clouds over the horizon and far out over the Atlantic, that I knew existed only from this evidence at first, affirmed by a quick phone-app peek at a satellite loop. As in a post-sunset chocolate mammatus scene from the Texas Panhandle a few years before, the coloration was eerie in dim light, brightened by several seconds of time exposure.
5 NW Bar Harbor ME (4 Oct 22) Looking E
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