Now THAT was a sunset!

[khiemtran]

Either that, or an alien mothership has made planetfall somewhere in western New South Wales...

From those who had the energy to take photos...

Comments

[lethargic-man.livejournal.com]

Oooh, I saw one of those once: a rainbow lacking the blue end of the spectrum, because the sun was red as it was setting. As I watched it, it turned completely red before fading as the sun set.

So I put it in the novel I was working on at the time. :o)

[khiemtran.livejournal.com]

Yes, I wonder if this one will work its way into a story somewhere... It was quite an unearthly experience.

[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

Wow! Those are stunning.

That's some cloud system. Did something horrible happen to the weather shortly afterwards?

[khiemtran.livejournal.com]

Strangely, it didn't. There was a lot of strong wind before and during though. There was a very weird feeling that something was "wrong" with the atmosphere and especially the light. Even indoors, something seemed wrong with the light coming through the windows.

[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

I remember once when I was in my early teens, the whole sky went very dark. It was so odd that everyone crowded to the classroom window and the teacher didn't try to stop us. Some of the girls were quite scared. It was just Not Normal.

Later we learned that a huge cloud of sand had been swept up into the atmosphere from somewhere like the Sahara desert and it had passed over us. That was sometime during the day, but I could imagine if something like that had happened at sunset, it would have been pretty apocalyptic, but as you say, it just passed over and everything brightened up again and the lesson continued after the disruption.

[khiemtran.livejournal.com]

It could be something like that. We do get dust storms here, although they're quite noticeable because of the taste of the dust in the air. Maybe if the dust was only in the upper atmosphere, we wouldn't notice it.

[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

Dust storms make a lot of sense in Australia. They were somewhat more unusual over the North West of England! I think the dust had been swept particularly high, which was why it had travelled so far, so perhaps that's what your Ominous Cloud was?

Anyway, whatever it was, the photos were stunning.