High clouds from what was once a tropical storm near Baja California put on a show Wednesday night, drawing crowds of people to witness a perfectly San Diego sunset.

The clouds formed due to Tropical Storm Juliette, which on Wednesday had weakened to a post-tropical cyclone in cool ocean waters from the Eastern North Pacific, the NWS said.

NBC 7 Meteorologist Sheena Parveen said high clouds generally move in ahead of a tropical storm. Because they are higher in the atmosphere, the clouds are colder and are, at times, made of ice crystals. Those cirrus clouds

"Light is scattered and reflected in much more vibrant ways with high clouds, as the rays from the sun hit these clouds differently at sunrise and sunset," Parveen said.

When the sunlight passes through those clouds, hues of red, o

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