As heatwave crests, smoky skies are fading in the forecast
EVERETT — While people can still expect hot weather and smoky skies Saturday, the worst conditions should be behind us, for now. Smoke is expected to begin clearing Saturday, bringing air quality to “moderate” levels for most of the day around Puget Sound.
An excessive heat warning for Snohomish County was expected to end Friday night. Temperatures reached the 90s in Everett, Arlington and in parts of the county Friday afternoon.
“By this evening, we should start to get a pretty good wind from the west blowing in some cleaner marine air,” said Phil Swartzendruber, a forecaster and air quality scientist with the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency, on Friday. “We should see this start to clean out overnight.”
Mike McFarland, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service, said Friday that Snohomish County can expect “one more hot day” Saturday, with temperatures in the upper 80s. Sunday will cool down dramatically, McFardland said.
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