Here’s your chance, if you missed Wednesday night’s dramatic sunset in the Bay Area. Our photo staff took some fantastic shots, as the sun came out through the clouds to close out the day. We also captured a beautiful rainbow in Hollister.
Wednesday night, the weather finally calmed down after the most recent atmospheric river storm brought a destructive “bomb cyclone” that touched down in the bay and killed at least three people Tuesday, while high winds toppled trees.
The cold storm split into two side-by-side swirling low-pressure zones. The rare phenomenon is known as the Fujiwhara Effect, after Sakuhei Fujiwhara, a Japanese meteorologist who discovered it in 1921. Read more about the weather event here.
The clouds turn cotton candy pink as the sun sets behind the foothills of Old Borges Ranch in Walnut Creek, Calif., on Wednesday, March 22, 2023. (Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Area News Group) Branches are silhouetted by a gloomy sunset in Hollister, California, on Wednesday, March 22, 2023. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group) On Wednesday, March 22, 2023, a rainbow appears over the fields in Hollister, California. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group) Storm clouds loom over downtown Concord, as seen from Old Borges Ranch in Walnut Creek, Calif., on Wednesday, March 22, 2023. (Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Area News Group) A patch of blue sky peeks through storm clouds from this drone image in Pittsburg, California, on Wednesday, March 22, 2023. (Jane Tyska/Bay Area News Group) A commercial jet flies through storm clouds as seen from Old Borges Ranch in Walnut Creek, Calif., on Wednesday, March 22, 2023. (Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Area News Group)
