{"id":309,"date":"2005-11-20T14:13:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-20T21:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/fire\/2005\/11\/20\/tucson-sunrises-and-sunsets\/"},"modified":"2006-05-02T22:24:48","modified_gmt":"2006-05-03T05:24:48","slug":"tucson-sunrises-and-sunsets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2005\/11\/20\/tucson-sunrises-and-sunsets\/","title":{"rendered":"Tucson Sunrises and Sunsets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here in Tucson, the sun rises over the Rincon Mountains to the east of the city.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/images\/firefly\/2005\/November\/Tucson-sunrise.jpg\" alt=\"Sunrise over the Rincon Mountains in Tucson, Arizona\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" class=\"post-photo\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There is an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/weather\/resources\/basics\/wredsky.htm\">old weather proverb<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Red sky by morning,<br \/>\nsailor take warning.<br \/>\nRed sky at night,<br \/>\nsailor&#8217;s delight.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/images\/firefly\/2005\/November\/Tucson-red-sunrise.jpg\" alt=\"Red sunrise over the Rincon Mountains in Tucson, Arizona\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" class=\"post-photo\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The red sunrise shown above occurred on December 21, 2002, and although the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wunderground.com\/history\/airport\/KDMA\/2002\/12\/21\/DailyHistory.html\">weather<\/a> was cool with a high of 55 \u00b0F (12.8 \u00b0C) and a low of 35 \u00b0F (1.7 \u00b0C), there was no rain that day&#8230; But rain did arrive the next day, so perhaps this proverb may still generally apply even for landlocked Tucson.<\/p>\n<p>This past October, after a day of photographing wildflowers under dark, cloudy skies in the Santa Catalina Mountains, I stopped at Babad Do&#8217;ag Vista to capture the setting sun peaking out from below the heavy clouds. Babad Do&#8217;ag (Frog Mountain) is the Tohono O&#8217;odham name for the Santa Catalina Mountains.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/images\/firefly\/2005\/November\/Tucson-storm-sunset.jpg\" alt=\"Sunset over the Tucson Mountains in Tucson, Arizona\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" class=\"post-photo\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The mountains west of Tucson visible in the above photograph are the Tucson Mountains. Unfortunately, I can&#8217;t see the beautiful Tucson Mountains from my house, and instead this is the sunset view from my yard.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/images\/firefly\/2005\/November\/Tucson-mackerel-sunset.jpg\" alt=\"Sunset in Tucson, Arizona\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" class=\"post-photo\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here in Tucson, the sun rises over the Rincon Mountains to the east of the city. There is an old weather proverb: Red sky by morning, sailor take warning. Red sky at night, sailor&#8217;s delight. The red sunrise shown above occurred on December 21, 2002, and although the weather was cool with a high of&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2005\/11\/20\/tucson-sunrises-and-sunsets\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More &rarr; <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona-weather-sky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}