Wildfire smoke is clogging skies in the Western U.S., Canada
Tens of millions of Americans and Canadians have been greeted by gray skies, eerily fiery sunrises and sunsets and a dingy veil of haze obscuring the sky overhead. The culprit? Dozens of raging wildfires burning across the West, emitting smoke some 40,000 feet into the atmosphere and signaling what may be a long, devastating fire season.
The smoke is also compromising air quality in areas near the blazes.
According to the National Interagency Fire Center, 67 large fires were burning across 12 states Tuesday. Seven have reached scales of 50,000 acres or larger, burning in areas from the Four Corners region and the Rockies to the Pacific Northwest. Scores of fires are also burning across Canada.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration wrote that “light density smoke” covered most of the western half of the United States late Monday, while “thick density smoke” blanketed Southern California, Nevada, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, Arizona, most of New Mexico and parts of West Texas. It added that much of central and south-central Canada was blanketed in “moderate to thick density smoke.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/wildfire-smoke-is-clogging-skies-in-the-western-us-canada/ar-AAM6Zub
Hasn't made it to the Puget Sound region where I am...yet.
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I remember seeing it and smelling it in Michigan.
Checking in from eastern Washington state and SW Montana. 