Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/09/09/oregon-wildfires-turn-daytime.html
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It also reminds me of that old saying:
Red sky at night, whoa-ho
Oh, oh, oh, Oh oh oh oh oh
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Huh, where I am in the SF Bay Area, everything has been extremely orange for the last couple of days. At ground level, the smoke’s not been that bad (especially compared to a few weeks ago), but there’s been enough in the atmosphere to block out sunlight and drop the temperature.
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I think y’all have covered the Enchanted Forest in Oregon, but they posted some fun pictures to their Instagram https://www.instagram.com/p/CE4sIMlBbt1/
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Yellow yesterday, orange today.
“Fun” times.
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Oh, heck yeah, thank you for these! I went there as a kid in the 80s when we traveled 4hrs north to Portland. Was a rare treat
Heh, back then we rarely drove the 5 minutes into the nearby town of 5k, let alone the “arduous” 25 minutes to the nearby city Roseburg of 20k… driving the 2½ hrs to Eugune happened maybe twice a year. Always struck me as funny just how quickly I adapted to the regular commute in Phoenix/LA/Seattle (though… I have always tried to live closer to work to try to minimize it).
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According to the news this AM we’re getting the smoke here from Oregon and the fire up in Plumas County or wherever. I checked the AQ for my neighborhood in the north end of Marin County on Purple Air and we’re at a ~56 so I guess I won’t die if I go outside. I woke up this morning and figured it was about 5 am and was going to go back to sleep but checked the clock and it was 7:13.
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For certain, nonstandard values of “fun…”
Some areas got the red skies. Here, we had the Purple Wall of Doom:
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Here was the sun yesterday around noon in Eugene OR
There is lots of Ash in the air and on the ground also
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Where am I going, and why am I in this hand basket?
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I fear it’s going to be a particularly bad year for fires in California, too. September has just started and we’re already seeing more of them than usual.
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Monday here felt just apocalyptic where I live near Portland - weird orange sky turned the day dark, winds gusting up to 49mph blowing smoke and ash. Totally freaky.
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This is the view out my window in San Francisco at 9:30 this morning. Manually color corrected to match what I see with my eyes because my phone’s auto white balance tried to make it look normal.
It’s now 11:30 and it’s gotten even darker. Looks like dawn.
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It looks like nighttime in my neighborhood. The street lamps here are all on. This is some Blade Runner shit.
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Almost identical look on the streets in the SF Bay Area right now. Our look is apparently due to fires about 100 miles away in Mendocino county.
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I was looking at an air quality map yesterday, and with each update a solid wall of the most hazardous air was coming in from the East. Luckily it never ended up getting too close, because I just can’t imagine how bad it would have been. The area where I live seems to be in a bubble where the air is better than even surrounding areas of the city, but when the fires first started, there was a thick haze at ground level that was visible beyond a few dozen feet - and the air quality wasn’t that bad, relative to what I’m seeing in other areas now.
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Yes, I suppose it’s too much to hope for one of the scenes where we get some rain.
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All those moments were lost, I hear.
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