A thin rain core at right filtered and softened the setting sun’s warm-colored rays, that then reflected off the ragged base of the arcus cloud overhead. The storm began as a high-based, weak supercell, then became “Tail-End Charlie” for a long squall line. The entire process saved its most stirring visual display for its dying, gusting-out phase, proving that outflow can be beautiful (despite other storm enthusiasts’ melancholy lamentations to the contrary).
