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Hello r/weather, i'm not sure if this is the right place to ask this, but i have been noticing a phenomena in my town over the last few years and I finally got the itch to ask about it. I live in the Gulf Shores AL area, and i have noticed that during the summers we tend to get south-moving storms intermixed with the usual ones coming from the west or up from the gulf. While I haven't been diligently recording each one, i have noticed that these southward storms are significantly stronger than any others (WAYY more lightning, and the only time we ever get hail is with these systems). As i understand it, storms really like tracking north-east, so why does my area see so many of these rogue storms? and why are they so packed full of energy?

Edit 2: Thank you for enlightening me on this bizarre scene of light and physics. I now understand! :)

Edit: Enough Reddit for today since y’all wanna take things so literally, and act like the sun is actually setting on the east, and call me the idiot just, bc, i asked a question. it’s called a question… abt weather? and I explained what im curious abt.
sorry y’all cant see past your own unintelligence into my intelligent human learning. (i see the sun set nearly every night and literally have never seen it once look this bizarrely on the complete other side, so ofc i’m curious as to knowing why it looks this way. Thank you.)

I was recording a thunderstorm as I realized the sun set… …was… …on the east… side..?

First 2 pictures are of the same house, during a thunderstorm, at 8pm, and on different days.

The first was taken on Tuesday (how it always looks)… …with the sun setting on the west side in-between the house and trees like always…

…The second one was Last night…

…no sun set at all there…

wanna know why?

Because the third pic is from Last night, too, of the very missing sunset being actually on the complete opposite side of the house… …and i'm literally using my compass and it’s pointed directly east at where the sunset was… …idk whats going on…

So may anyone please explain whats going on here..? kinda tripping me out💀😅

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