All-time record high temperatures here today in San Diego, and now fire

[AA BB]

very sad the only thing Trump offered CA, OR and WA citizens was: "it'll get cooler..wait and see"

[Stevo]

It was a lot cooler under the thicker smoke overcast,but nobody wants that nuclear winter, and now that it's thinned to a haze here, it's much warmer again. I don't think that's what the POTUS really meant, though.

[richb]

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[cyrilus31]

Global warming is not a political matter but some people would like to go this way.
Anyway, here in France many high temp records have been beaten on monday and tuesday. Not as much as Stevo (up to 38°C), but that's clearly unusual mid-september (and combined with a severe drought in many parts of the country)

[dolphin_oracle]

they say there is so much ash/soot/whatever going into the air from the western fires that we will be able to detect it out east soon, if not already.

[Stevo]

A few days ago, the Netherlands weather services tweeted that the smoke was giving them a high haze, so I would think it must be passing over the eastern US, too, unless it was taking a circuitous route. Did you see anything, Eadwine?

I know that our weather satellites have special sensors to pick up smoke concentration, just like they can pick up Saharan dust blowing into the Caribbean, so maybe I can find a global overlay of that...

Hmmm--this one shows most of the smoke headed north and west over the Pacific: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/20 ... anger-zone

https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/godd ... he-pacific

The current visible shot shows most of the Pacific NW under a pall of smoke, though: https://weather.cod.edu/satrad/?parms=s ... =undefined

Worst background blur setting ever!

[Eadwine Rose]

Oh THAT is why it was so hazy, yeah I noticed that. Didn't realize what caused it.. just thought it was the weather really, it's been weird over here as well so I never made the link.

It was a weird hazy, yeah. Later on in the day the wind really picked up.

[Stevo]

Ah, this image from earlier in the month shows the smoke extending across the USA, so that must be the cloud that got across the Atlantic: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/20 ... ss-america

[Eadwine Rose]

Interesting for sure!!

[oops]

...A few days ago, the Netherlands weather services tweeted that the smoke was giving them a high haze

...Yes, in the north of Europe:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1304018433324048384