Stunning Bay Area sunsets likely to continue — send us your photos

Blazing red, soft pink, golden and glowing sunsets have filled Bay Area skies recently, and the factors that produced them — high pressure, light winds and moisture high in the sky — are likely to continue for the next few days if not longer, according to a National Weather Service meteorologist. 

“First all, you have high pressure which causes any particles, such as pollution suspended in the air, to sink closer to the surface,” Jeff Lorber, meteorologist with the National Weather Service, said Saturday. This helps create those vivid colors because of the way the particles bend the rays of sunlight, Lorber said. “High-pressure” refers to air from higher in the atmosphere sinking down.