Vivid

Vivid

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this evening over —

Tonight

Reading the sky…

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of the past year’s evenings here ended duller than tonight promises

The Reading

The Almanac

Where to Face

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The Week Ahead

Last Evening

The score is a percentile against the last 365 evenings at this place. Cloud forecasts: ECMWF IFS and AIFS, UK Met Office, DWD ICON, NOAA GFS, Environment Canada, Météo-France, and JMA — scored separately, then weighted by track record, via Open-Meteo. History: ERA5 reanalysis. Aerosols: CAMS. Terrain: Copernicus 90 m elevation, walked 60 miles up the sunset bearing. Sun geometry: NOAA solar equations. The light-path check averages cloud over six samples out to 175 miles toward the sunset. About Vivid.