It was a sight to see, full of color and texture.
While it’s only the first week of the year, and sunset competition is just underway, Wednesday’s stunner offered many reasons to look up. The sky was filled with orange and purple light, a soft glow and long, bumpy clouds that extended for miles.
The extraordinary sunset unfolded after predicted rain and storms didn’t show in most areas, so perhaps the sky felt the need to make up for it. But there were enough raindrops to give eastern parts of the area a nice view of a late-day rainbow. The image below was captured in Annapolis. Across the rest of the area, several layers of clouds draped overhead, from just a few thousand feet up to a deck around 20,000 feet aloft. It was that high cloud deck that lit up dramatically.
The lower clouds fractured just as the sun started to descend. In some cases, they helped frame the scene. As Wednesday night’s sunset was the last one of the season before 5 p.m., Thursday night’s will the first at 5 p.m. or later since Nov. 8. The Washington region has now gained 15 minutes of evening light from the low point in early December. Thursday morning was also the latest sunrise of the winter as days gain light following theBy the end of January, the sun will set at 5:28 p.m. in Washington.
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