Instead of a “tequila sunrise”, this was a mammatus sunrise! I see far less mammatus at sunrise than sunset, for two reasons:
1. Vigorous supercells and other storm complexes capable of generating mammatus are less common at this time of the morning, when low-level instability is near daily minimum, and
2. I’m seldom awake and at home at this time of day.
An intervening cloud streak deck (behind the trees) shadowed the nearer and more ragged underside of the visible formation, letting the natural, antecedent light through, and accentuating the cloud form’s texture. Meanwhile the farther part presented classically as mammatus clouds. The vivid contrast between bright, warm sunrise colors in the distance and blue to beige tones overhead struck me as uniquely beautiful.
Norman OK (28 May 24) Looking ENE