A Little Bit Of Everything This Evening

A "mock sun" reflects from the underside of a brilliantly illuminated shelf of clouds as weather clears to the west at 7:50 PM on Thursday, September 2, 2010. The real sun had already dropped below the horizon. This scene was captured from the grounds of Noelridge Christian Church in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The evening saw a mixed-bag of weather observation: fast moving low-level clouds, rain, lightning, rainbows, blazing sunsets and finally a clear western sky that revealed a brightly shining planet Venus.