Several of the most brilliantly chromatic sunset displays I’ve seen have been on the west side of high-cloud shields produced by tropical cyclones; this incredibly textured stunner ranks right up there. A deeply granular cloud shield, spawned over Mexico by what was left of Hurricane Patricia, blew northeastward through our wide and wondrous sky. Red rays of day’s end shone through a thin slit of western clearing, casting their intense glow and making shadows across the inverted cloudscape. Patricia’s glory hour as the hurricane with strongest known maximum winds (215 mph) long had passed, as it fell apart in the rugged terrain of northern Mexico. However, for hundreds of miles into the U.S., its upper-level outflow left a final and memorable mark with this sunset.
Norman, OK (24 Oct 15) Looking WNW
35.1814, -97.44