This is yesterday’s sunrise. See how the light is all creepy, red, and polarized? It would have been even more amazing with a really monstrous digital SLR, but this picture is still pretty damn awesome. The sun literally looked like a ruby in the smoke, and the light was bright red. For several hours. And again almost all day today. I really cannot describe the light; if you’re been near epic fires, you’ll know the kind of light I am talking about, it’s so orangey-red that you almost feel like everything is on fire.

And now, this from the National Weather Service:

“A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW…OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS…LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY…AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL.”

I think this means that more epic sunrises can be expected. The red flag warning is not projected to be lifted until Sunday.