Lovely and scary, at the same time..
Ross
Ditto Wow and lovely ... and yes, scary.
Lately we've had quick changes too. Never even thought of taking pictures, figured it was cold fronts or something charging along. and camera never available 'just at that moment'.
So, did your weather change significantly before, after, during?[/QUOTE]
No it didn't. Just our typical winds...15-25 mph. Today's sky is doing almost the same thing...but not as dramatic as yesterday.
DH taught Earth science for years. I showed him these pictures and he said the first two are a phenomenon called virga. The winds are blowing sand and dust into the air, and downdrafts (powerful winds going straight down) from the clouds are bringing moisture, but the moisture evaporates before it hits the ground, leaving the dust.
Climate change is a thing everywhere, changing not just temperatures but intensities of wind patterns and storms.Virga is a very common feature here and this is not a virga anyone has seen before. There is a little bit of virga going on in the second photograph, but virga was not the predominate feature of yesterdays' sky. It was the cloud formations, the colors, the rapidly changing cloud formations and their evolving colors. I'll try and post a few more photographs.
Watching the news about the fires in California, I wonder if it's related to ash and smoke in the air drifting over to New Mexico.