2020-09-09 @3:38PM NOT sunset! Smoke over San Mateo County, California, U.S.A. #smokescape

            NOT a sunset! Smoke from northern fires at 3:30PM in San Mateo County, CA. For most of the day it's been too dark to read indoors without artificial light. More info:

National Weather Service forecaster Roger Gass explained wildfire smoke from the August Complex fires in Mendocino County has traveled more than 100 miles to the Bay Area. The mass of polluted air is hovering high in the atmosphere above the marine layer that pushed inland from the Pacific Ocean this morning.

"That's the reason it doesn’t smell smokey but the sky is a different color," explained Gass. "This fire is farther away so the smoke is getting lofted into the atmosphere and lofted over us."

Jan Null, a meteorologist who runs a private forecasting service called Golden Gate Weather Services, added that the marine inversion layer acts as a barrier. "That’s why air quality isn’t too bad this morning," Null said. "The smoke is not able to mix down through the inversion. The smoke is also sort of traveling past us."

Taken on: September 9, 2020

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