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Not much to the sunset this evening but anything is better than the 100% stratus that is the seasonal usual. So the white cirrus over the yellow low level is a nice change. This was taken from the sidewalk of the bank next door to my house.

Oddities of oddities, the earliest sunset is around Dec. 07 here at KIND. Yeah the sunrises are still compressing but at least we will stop the bleeding here in less-than-a-handful of days in the back-half.

How does the weenie Dictionary go? DAB, DAB+, grassy accumulation, Shattered dendrites wisping across the road, Trace, Trace+, buried snow board, dumping, dumping+, bomb bomb+ ????

LAF gets seven and IND is shut out? One heck of a gradient.

A slight disturbance was sliding through from the northwest this evening...

0.94 in my tippy bucket. KIND says 0.80 in theirs. Of course now that the growing season is kaput it decides to rain.

That will fog the windows.

Had a gorgeous sunrise this morning. Started off with some vivid red... The extent of the orange... A look to the south... The last of the yellow... Only one from the sunset this evening. The brief red flash... Cheers!

Only 72 at KIND. But I will gladly take room temperature in November.

Threw the whole paint bucket at tonight's sunset. Looking southeast when I got out to the pond and the white... Beginning of the post sunset and the yellow with some crepuscular rays... The beginning of the red up high and some even more prominent crepuscular rays... There was a narrow plume of, I am guessing smoke, from Iowa to Illinois. Made for an extreme violet flash. This looks almost photoshopped but it is not. Amazing color! Good night my darlin', where ever you are...

Just for comparison, how many births today?

How to tell it is autumn? When you look at the visual satellite and over 80% of the lower 48 is having cloudy conditions.

The race was on this afternoon between the dry air and the leftover low level moisture. The dry air won but I did get two images. Looking southeast when I got to the pond... Looking southwest close to sunset...

Was out at the pond again this evening. Just after sunset, while there still as some white in the clouds... While there was s smidge of red, there was not enough to call it a red flash. Maybe a burnt orange flash? Umber flash? Whatever it was, here is the last of the evening...

Snow invades the lower 48 outside of the Rockies...

Was not expecting much this evening. But seeing how I have this problem of needing to take sunset pics, of course I was out there. When I got there the Sun peeked out and spot-lit some clouds... If this was the best of the color I would have been happy... But I was surprised by what happened next. I will say in the next two images I am not happy with the blue in both images. But when I tried to knock it down the images either went too yellow or too green. So the wild blue will stay. When the red flash occurred I had the 100mm on seeing how I thought if any red did occur, it would be well to the south of me. So I was only able to image part of the red when it originally happened... After a frantic lens change to the 24-70mm, I as able to better show just how much of the horizon went red. And boo-hiss to the excessive blue... Cheers!

That is the perfect amount of snow. Shows off the brickwork pattern very nicely.

This evening the midwest sky was doing a homage to the California wildfire skies. But there as no fire. Just the fading post sunset colors...

Once again the frontal passage timed out perfect for the sunset this evening. But I am going to start missing these in the future during work days. I just managed to make it out at the last possible moment. Looking east as soon as I rolled out of the car getting there... Next I shifted to the northeast as the orange started creeping into the area... Then I ran down to the pond to get the yellow and orange on the western horizon... A bit later as the reds started creeping in... The last image of the night was taken with the 24-70mm. The previous four images were all taken with the 16-35mm. Just a hint of a sun pillar with this image... Good night my darlin', where ever you are...

Had a little bit of cirrus around for the post sunset. Was kind of breezy again with gusts around 30mph when I took these. Both of these images were taken with the 24-70mm lens. It is the Mark I version of this lens and there is a reason they nicknamed it "The Brick". It is quite heavy and helped stabilize the tripod and mount with it's heft. When I got out there at 38mm... A bit later at 70mm...

I had 0.24 in my tippy bucket when I got home from work. There was a farmer plowing under the corn stubble with a field cultivator and the almost quarter inch was still not enough to push him out of the field.

Tonight we had the perfect frontal passage as far as the timing for a nice sunset. After a month of benign conditions I forgot how much a struggle taking pictures in a stiff breeze was like. But I made it through it. These three images are all taken at 31mm and occurred within a four minute window. Shows how much things can change and still be sort of the same. So here are the three in the order that I took them... Cheers!

Delta's remnants were a bit thicker here this evening. What it looked like when I got out to the pond... Here I oriented a lot higher to get more of the overhead clouds. Interesting to see how the color balance changes when you do this... Cheers!

Once again, Delta's skirts were around the area for sunset. Looking west when I got out to the pond... THe beginning of the post sunset color, looking south-southeast... Back to the west for post sunset color... The best over-the-top color was looking south-southwest... Cheers!

Arid, Parched, Desiccated are just a few terms for how it is around these parts.