It’s been a while since I posted a sunrise picture. This morning was nice. We had an almost complete overcast with a slim opening right at the horizon. The sun came up, peeked through the opening for a few minutes, and then disappeared into the clouds.
The plumes on the right are from the Georgia Power coal-fired generating plant at Euharlee. Most of what looks like smoke is actually steam from the cooling towers. The plant is working fairly hard because the temperature dropped a little last night. Once the sun rose far enough that the clouds hid it, the wonderful red light disappeared, and now it’s just gray.
Mark: You’re starting to vie with Robin Andrea for atmosphere images! (Actually, the image, while really spectacular, reminds me of an image of a nuclear explosion off in the distance.)
Scott — Thanks. Robin has some really nice images. It does kind of look like a nuclear explosion. Earlier it looked like there was a really big fire in the distance.
That is such a cool sunrise. Wow. I’ve never seen anything like it. And you know I’m always looking! LOL! Truly beautiful, Mark.
Robin — Thanks. We actually get fair number of impressive sunrises, but I usually see them when I’m walking the dogs, and they’re gone by the time I get back to my camera.