Sky Phenomena

Watching the sky from our deck gives an ever-changing view. Lately I've been treated to towering thunderstorm clouds, fire-in-the-sky sunsets, and lots of fog clinging to the mountains.

A thunderstorm developing to the east.

A dissipating thunderstorm at sunset.

After a rain, the fog seemed to be pouring over North Mountain.

Fore Mountain obscures the horizon to the west, but at times the sunset still colors the sky.

And sometimes the whole sky seems on fire.

Tonight there was a thunderstorm covering the western half of the sky, but to the east were these "anti-crepuscular rays". They are like the light rays typically seen in a sunset, but they have traveled all the way across the sky and appear to converge at the anti-solar point. The large white dot is the nearly-full moon.