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Spotlit Sunset Haboob

2021-09-18 By Roger Edwards

Spotlit Sunset Haboob

For just a fleeting moment, a shaft of the day’s last sunlight streamed through a gap in clouds to the west, shining directly onto the apex of a haboob.  Blasting westward through the Tucson metro area, this outflow-driven slab of dust made a miserable experience for anyone caught outside, with its choking grit and hazardously low visibility.   Out here, it offered a beautiful spectacle as the sunset on dense dust yielded a coral, pink-orange fluid form.  This place and time was doubly amazing, for on the other side of the highway,  another section of sunlight brilliantly illuminated a high-based arcus, above a different part of the same haboob.  A day that started with a beautiful weak supercell and some hail was peaking at sunset with highly colorful dust and outflow.   The very next day, I would experience another spectacular haboob, but around Las Cruces, NM.

2 ENE Three Points AZ (10 Jul 21) Looking S
32.0977, -111.2616

Filed Under: Gallery of Outflow, Sunsets and Sunrises Tagged With: Arizona, clouds, convection, deserts, dust, haboob, landscapes, outflow, storms, sunsets, Three Points, thunderstorms, Tucson, weather

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Welcome to SkyPix, an online photo book of clouds, weather and water by Roger Edwards. As in a printed coffee-table book, every image has its own page with a unique story. After all, meaningful photography is much more than just picture-taking; it is visually rendering a moment in place and time from a perspective like none other. As a scientist and an artist, I hope my deep passion for the power and splendor of our skies and waters shines through in these pages. If you are a cloud and weather aficionado, outdoor enthusiast, outdoor or nature photographer, art lover, or anyone who craves learning, enjoy...

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