Just wonderful - the sunlight has been alternating between dirty gray and livid salmon yellow. Back to the salmon yellow for now - the Washington State Department of Ecology has this to say:
Smoke chokes Washington - air quality worst in the nation
Air monitors around Washington state are lighting up the maps like a Christmas tree - and red lights aren't good.
Almost every community in the state has been hit hard by smoke blowing in from British Columbia wildfires. You can see it, you can almost reach out and touch it, and many of us are feeling it.
If you look at air quality across the U.S., Washington has had the worst readings since the wildfire smoke hit the state earlier this week.
Here is a link to an interactive fire and smoke map (open the pull-out menu with the little blue plus sign at the top right of the map). and here is a screen-cap from a few moments ago - red and yellow dots indicate unsafe conditions for vulnerable people:
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