The smoke from the California fires is reaching as far as Denver today..

[tridim]

http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_13240245

It's changing the sunlight into a strange, diffuse orange/yellow hue. Very freaky day.

I hope they can get the fires put out soon, this is not good.

[closeupready]

1. I'm on the East Coast, and the sunsets this past week have been spectacular.

I wonder if particles from the fire drifting eastward with the jet stream are partially to explain?

[earthside]

2. Deep orange moon ...

... last night in the Colorado sky.

I sleep with the window open and this morning when I woke up, no doubt, there was faintest taste of smoke in my mouth.

This afternoon, the sky is a light shade of gray where it would be blue; you can barely make out the few clouds floating by.

[TransitJohn]

3. It was bad here in the Laramie Valley this morning.

It still is...can't see the Snowies 30 miles away.

On edit: Jesus, even an article like this gets turned into a flamewar in the comments between conservatives and liberals. :wtf:

[Javaman]

4. Flame war? where? nt

[TransitJohn]

5. The comments in the article linked to in the OP

on the Denver Post website.

[kestrel91316]

6. The light coming into my bathroom through the skylight has had a

distinct orange hue the past couple of days. And somebody even commented on the way the whole sky looked and the orangish cast to light outside this past weekend.