Just a little while after another beautiful sunset scene blessed us, there came a late-stage eruption of wispy color tufts drawn from a crimson orb far beyond the horizon. The red–blue contrast was one of the most intense I’ve seen in a sunset, thanks to a clean wintertime sky and a display of virga-dropping high clouds that would be remarkable at any time of day. Virga simply is precipitation that does not reach the ground—in this case, in the form of fallstreaks of snow from cirrus and cirrocumulus clouds.
1 W Little Axe OK (2 Jan 7) Looking WSW
35.2363, -97.2232Virga Sunset
Just a little while after another beautiful sunset scene blessed us, there came a late-stage eruption of wispy color tufts drawn from a crimson orb far beyond the horizon. The red–blue contrast was one of the most intense I’ve seen in a sunset, thanks to a clean wintertime sky and a display of virga-dropping high clouds that would be remarkable at any time of day. Virga simply is precipitation that does not reach the ground—in this case, in the form of fallstreaks of snow from cirrus and cirrocumulus clouds.
1 W Little Axe OK (2 Jan 7) Looking WSW
35.2363, -97.2232