The sunrise was illuminating the underside of a warm frontal surface. This is a classic pattern. The gravity waves reveal the stability that results when the warm air of the approaching system rides over the cold air hugging the surface. It would have been a frontlit sky much like this one that occurred 35 years previous on May 31st, 1985. A frontal system with a low level jet, moisture and daytime heating can always generate significant weather. The outbreak of severe convection in 1985 had everything going for it including the dynamics of an upper jet. Watching the sky is an important thing to do and the pioneers learned the science through experience. I had to use text books.
The sunrise light cast an orange hue on the emergent vegetation. This lighting only lasts a few minutes in the scene but a lifetime in my memory. In less than ten more minutes the rising sun would climb above the deck of altocumulus clouds and these shores would be cast into shadow for maybe the rest of the day. The Singleton Sanctuary is special and thankfully we have been able to preserve a big chunk of it. Nature that took eons to create cannot be replaced by any amount of dollars - their is no sense in paving over paradise.
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