This is pretty impressive. It appears that MSFS 2024 simulates the shadow of Mt. Rainer, which actually occurs in real life:

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This photo comparison is courtesy of this thread at Reddit.

This news article here describes this shadow phenomenon of Mt. Rainer:

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Photos and videos from around the Tacoma, Washington, area showed a dramatic dark stripe emanating from Mt. Rainier amid the brilliant colors of the sunrise. 

It can give the appearance of ash coming from the volcano — but don’t worry, it’s just the mountain’s shadow!

In late autumn, the sun rises far enough south on the horizon to align right behind Mt. Rainier. As the sun rises behind the Cascades, Mt. Rainier’s tall stature makes for a lingering shadow.

And when there are clouds at just the right altitude, they make an easel for the shadow to be visible.

The phenomenon is fairly rare and best seen in the late October through January time frame for those south of Seattle, closer to where the mountain looms.

 

 

Edited May 19, 20251 yr by abrams_tank

I wonder how Mount Teide looks with its shadow cast towards La Gomera in the Canary Islands.  I'm there at the moment.  Apparently it's the biggest perfect shadow cast on the planet.  

That's pretty dang cool! I wonder however if this can be reproduced in 2020 too. Need to go try in both myself, if I can set up weather manually to match the required conditions.

That is very impressive indeed.

The eye of Sauron more like, I’d be careful hanging around there if I were you.

It's a pleasure to live near "The Mountain" here in the Northwest.  It has many faces and generates its own weather.  The above real image is something else.  The shadow occurs from time to time but the color shown above is very rare.  We see lots of lenticular clouds though.  Then, the mountain is wearing a hat!

Although the mountain was named for Rear Admiral Peter Rainier, R.N. in 1792 by Captain George Vancouver, the local Native American groups use the name "Tahoma" for Mount Rainier, which means "snow-covered mountain" or "the mother of all waters".  What ever is the name, it's "The Mountain" to me.

16 hours ago, jmdriskell said:

It's a pleasure to live near "The Mountain" here in the Northwest.  It has many faces and generates its own weather.  The above real image is something else.  The shadow occurs from time to time but the color shown above is very rare.  We see lots of lenticular clouds though.  Then, the mountain is wearing a hat!

Although the mountain was named for Rear Admiral Peter Rainier, R.N. in 1792 by Captain George Vancouver, the local Native American groups use the name "Tahoma" for Mount Rainier, which means "snow-covered mountain" or "the mother of all waters".  What ever is the name, it's "The Mountain" to me.

Absolutely...lived in Tacoma 1965-1970 hiked almost every trail around that mountain, the wonderland trail plus many others. We always got up and said, I wonder if the mountain is out today. There are of course several places named Tahoma on the mountain.

Edited May 20, 20251 yr by 1st fltsimguy

I wanted to check it out for myself since some of those posts can be complete BS...but WOW. This is super cool.

 

Cute !!!!