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Our condo in Honokawai, Maui, faced west and gave us front row seats each night for a spectacular sunset. We enjoyed them so much that we only ate at a restaurant one night--making sure we still h
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I wondered why the sunsets were so beautiful. I remembered that the ones in Moorea, French Polynesia, were as well. Did it have to do with the Pacific ocean? The atmosphere around the islands? I went searching and found an article about the colors of twilight and sunset that had been printed in Weather Wise magazine. What I gleaned is that as the sun's rays lengthen, the light is scattered by particles in the atmosphere. If the area has a
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A lot of the drama comes from the clouds. The best sunsets (and sunrises) have a few clouds. The clouds are often backlit and then as the sun sets, they reflect the colors that are scattered by the sun's rays hitting those particles in the sky.
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Now that's probably not a real scientific summary of the article but you can read it for
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