One of the year’s most spectacular sunrises happened not in the Great Plains, but surprisingly, along the Maine coast. This was a protracted event too, much to the delight of all eyewitnesses. The pre-sunrise indirect colors hinted at the direct red brilliance to come; then it went orange and offered this. Small, dot-like cloud elements at upper left are just the sunlit lower tips of altocumulus undulatus that poke below shadows of clouds to their east, but the appear as standalone ghosts of light. A faint sun pillar also appeared about 1/3 of the way across the view from the left. Soon, with the sun up, the cloud base would glow with color again, from light reflected off the ocean surface. Have you yet seen the two flying geese silhouetted at uppermost right?
5 NW Bar Harbor ME (4 Oct 22) Looking E
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