That smoke is making its way even into Ohio. Our sunny days have normally been hazier than normal this year (add to that we have been getting a bunch of rain). One day, the sun had an interesting color to it at midday. It was orange with evening like colors cast on everything.
Jason N8XE
"Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense." - Carl Sagan
Smoke can travel a LONG way before dissipating. Here are the plumes from Southern California 10-23-07 courtesy of NASA. Every so often we get some wicked ones here in the Pine Barrens, those pitch pines go up like matches... POOF! They've been known to sweep through residential neighborhoods too, I get the news before the media on my scanner.
"The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you."
Neil deGrasse Tyson
73 de Warren KB2VXA
Station powered by atomic energy, operator powered by natural gas.
That's just Dre and Snoop's normal output from those regions.
Jim
The machine does not isolate us from the great problems of nature but plunges us more deeply into them. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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