As outflow surged southwestward across the borderlands of southwestern New Mexico, it periodically lifted several types of clouds out of the foregoing, marginally moist air mass, including chunky partial arcus formations like this. Late-afternoon sunlight, reflecting directly off the Peloncillo Mountains, colored the overhead outflow clouds and surrounding dust a warm, muted orange hue. That likely was reinforced by indirect light off similarly colored soils on the desert flats adjoining the range. When this outflow surge hit the Chiricahua Mountains several miles to the west, at and shortly after sunset, it created an even more amazing sequence of light and sky texture.
7 NNE Rodeo NM (5 Jul 21) Looking SE
31.934, -108.9834