On this cool, post-convective evening in late May, the sky treated six million people in the Metroplex to a long-lived sunset for the ages. Only a few dozen motorists and photographers saw it from this vantage, high above the Trinity River on the Sylvan Avenue bridge. Returning from storms near Fairfield, I had mapped this viewing angle out in my imagination, armed with an intimate knowledge of Dallas geography, awareness of the hugely flooded river, and the likelihood that the cloud shield behind the storm complex could light up brilliantly at just the right time. From the reflected skyline to earlier mammatus to a later twilight show, the evening realistically could not have scripted itself better!
Dallas TX (25 May 15) Looking WNW
32.7896, -96.8352