OKAY I literally just got up, its ll:23 am and its DARK RED OUTSIDE

[yuiyoshida]

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[2naSalit]

1. Yup.

The Santa Ana is blowing so all the smoke east of you is blowing through your area out to the ocean. Stay safe!

[shanti]

5. The Santa Ana winds

are only in SoCal.

[2naSalit]

7. Didn't look that way from the sattelite images...

So don't call them Santa Ana winds, they are still blowing east to west and that's why SFO is smoked out.

[shanti]

8. That'll work!

It was very windy here in Sactown yesterday, not so much today. SF must be getting them today.

[2naSalit]

11. I have to admit...

All the times I lived in California was in San Diego County so I didn't know the winds aren't called that up north!

[Brother Buzz]

26. It's actually called the Diablo or the North Wind in Northern California and it blows from north

There's a river of smoke shooting down the Sacramento Valley from the Butte / Tehama / Glenn Lightning Complex fires, aimed straight at the Bay Area.

[2naSalit]

27. You what?

I actually knew it was called the Diablo but it seems to have not been in my consciousness for years, until you just reminded me!



And I saw that on that satellite loop earlier today. We get similar winds here but it's often referred t as the Chinook.

When it's driving fires and smoke like that, it's horrible and surreal. We haven't had many fires in the Northern Rockies all summer, until about two weeks ago. Now that our September rain has passed through, we'll be back to inferno status in a few days.

[Brother Buzz]

31. I call it the North Wind in the Sacramento Valley because...

Mount Diablo is due south of me and it makes no sense when the wind is coming from the north

Here's about all you need to know about offshore winds, and it's arguably the best opening paragraph in ANY piece of literature, bar none:

There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa Anas that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair and make your nerves jump and your skin itch. On nights like that every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands' necks. Anything can happen. You can even get a full glass of beer at a cocktail lounge. - Raymond Chandler, Red Wind: A Collection of Short Stories

[Retrograde]

22. They're referred to as offshore winds

up in these parts - SF Bay Area - and aren't unusual for this time of year. It's part of the reason why September/October tend to be our hot times - and one of the main reasons the Oakland hills fire of 1991 was so deadly.

[hlthe2b]

2. Likely... This was my area of northern Colorado on Monday (before our snowstorm) 40 miles west

of our major fire. During this, we were getting ashes raining down and it seemed like 8 pm at noon. Very eery.

[Maru Kitteh]

20. Beautiful photograph though. Yours?

[hlthe2b]

24. No. Friend of mine that freelances for local paper.

[smirkymonkey]

3. That looks terrifying!

Stay safe, Yui! Keep us posted!

[Adsos Letter]

4. Our streetlights are on at 11:45am.

West of Fairfield.😬

[Alex4Martinez]

6. Same her over on the coast, all day long.

It's like living in movie about climate change.

Except it's not a movie.

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[brooklynite]

9. "Red sky at morning, sailors take warning....."

[CanonRay]

10. Same here in Oregon

[yuiyoshida]

12. driving across the golden gate bridge..

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[StarryNite]

13. That is horrible.

[yuiyoshida]

14. I took this at Noon

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[Codeine]

15. Ash was coming down like snow earlier.

Now high winds have cleared that, but I’m sure they’re spreading the fires.

[yuiyoshida]

17. OMG...

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[ancianita]

16. All the photos, omg. If this isn't climate crisis...

[yuiyoshida]

29. yup

[roamer65]

18. Australia, here it comes.

You’re heading into spring/summer and the Earth is about 2 million miles closer to the Sun during your late spring and early summer.

[yuiyoshida]

21. more tweets

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[Retrograde]

19. Same here

I woke up, looked at the light coming in through the cracks in the curtains and it seemed like it was just before sunrise, so I went back to sleep. It seems to be a very high smoke layer, since it doesn't smell smoky outside. It also seems to be an offshore flow, so we're getting the smoke from all the fires to the east. At least the heat wave is gone - for a while.

[octoberlib]

23. It looks like Mars. Stay safe, yuiyoshida!

I just followed you on Twitter.

[Hekate]

25. That's super-scary.

Fingers crossed for the Central Coast — Ventura and Santa Barbara. Things cooled yesterday (After hitting 107 over the weekend), but I kept the windows shut as the gray overcast didn’t feel like fog, and the sunlight stripes on the concrete looked yellow. Finally opened up when I could tell we were getting real coastal fog last night.

This morning I was all set to shut the house up again because of that same yellow look, then decided to check the Air Quality Control pages, which gave me some assurance for our area. I think the color of the sunlight is from ash very high up in the atmosphere, then.

You and all our friends in the fire zones are much in our thoughts, Yui.

[JuJuYoshida]

28. hang in there sister!

San Diego didn't get near anything like that!

[yuiyoshida]

30. Juju!! ITs so dark outside right now...

Its unbelievable!!

[liberaltrucker]

32. Just saw that on the 5:00 news here in PA

Looks more like Mars than Earth.
You and JuJu stay safe!