August 21, 2018
Pacific Northwest
I’ve been away from home the past few days, elsewhere in western Washington. Home last night. The wildfire smoke is really bad right now. Started moving in again Sunday night. Yesterday morning wasn’t extreme but throughout the day it deteriorated big time.
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I went out for a quick look at the bay before dark yesterday evening to check it out. The view above was at about 6:30pm. Sunset isn’t until after 8m these days but you can see how dark it was already.
Took a few snapshots —
Our boat Elansa in the bay. Usually you can see the far shoreline. Now you can barely see the dock a hundred yards beyond.
Inanimate objects — not our worry right now. It’s the wildlife I’m concerned about.
When I left a few minutes later it was even darker. The sun is actually the orangey pinkish color of the reflections on the water, the camera trying to make a color adjustment.
It’s bad this morning, and will deteriorate again over the day as the ground warms, air rises and mixes with the smoke aloft, bringing it down to the ground again.
The smoke is actually blowing out to sea, as easterly and northeasterly winds send wildfire smoke from British Columbia and Eastern Washington. The forecast is for an onshore flow tomorrow night but it will take another day to push all that toward the east, clearing western Washington.
Somebody on my Facebook feed, grousing about this nasty toxic miasma we’re in now, actually asked Why are we getting these fires all of a sudden? There really are folks out there so cocooned they have no awareness of the unprecedented effects the world has been seeing this summer from global warming, much less the heat, dry forests, changing wind patterns, etc, right here in the Pacific Northwest. Seems incredible, but if anything might get these folks’ attention, seems like this might.
What’s up in nature in your area today?
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