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I feel this happens to me a lot, that I see the best sunsets from some stupid parking lot.
I think there may be actual geographical reasons. The land where I live is flat, the horizon is generally obscured by trees or buildings. But in the middle of the suburban Buy-n-Large parking lot, 10x bigger than it has any need to be, I can almost see the horizon for once. I can see so much more sky than I can from most other places.
It depends on the position of the clouds.
Basically, the clouds need to be overhead, but there needs to be a gap in the cloud cover to the west (possibly even beyond the horizon).
This gap lets sunlight in from below the clouds, so that it can shine up on the bottom of them. If you look carefully, you can see that the illuminated parts of the clouds are the ones facing west and down.
That's why the sunset only looks this brilliant occasionally. Conditions have to be perfect for it. It's most common after a heavy rain, because the evaporating water tends to create the perfect array of clouds. But the timing has to be just right too. Too soon, and there's no gap for the sun to peak through; too late and the clouds scatter.