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The sun crests over the canyon and hits your face. You turn your head, your cheek feels hot from the sunburn and the days past spent hiking through the sagebrush and dust. The freezing temperatures from the night before are vaporized instantly. Today at least there are clouds.
The crack in the Earth before you was unexpected. It was flat for miles, then torn asunder like some invisible cataclysm happened here. But it's too ancient now for anyone to remember what it was.
You survey the land ahead of you for animal tracks - coyote and gecko - and wonder how far it would be to get to the other side. Is there a bridge? As you near the edge you feel cooler air wafting up from. From where? You can barely see the bottom without falling over.
How deep is this canyon?
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Awesome.
Rayleigh scattering describes how light from the sun interacts with particles in the atmosphere, and during the morning and sunset the path through which this scattering effect is observed is greatest (literally, with respect to an observer on Earth, sunlight is penetrating through thicker atmosphere than it is during noon-day hours or when the sun is directly overhead) which means that as blue light is scattered first, furthest away from the observer, reddish/yellowish light continues on, giving the sky the same color.
Western Skies is the most realistic climate modifier I can think of - but I agree. In the morning there's a bit of a greenish tint to the horizon and clouds would not be *as* red, perhaps, but it's definitely closer to normal tones than the vanilla NVDefaultClimate.
Nvrmnd. You're totally right. Just finished messing around with my own weather settings and the clouds definitely shouldn't be orange in the morning.
It's beautiful, makes me want to see the real thing.
There should be a Sopranos style 'quest' where you take some peyote, go strolling into the desert and end up here watching the sunset :p