All last week, and continuing in to this week, we are experiencing terribly smokey skies. There is a ridge of high pressure holding in the smoke from wildfires in Montana and British Columbia. It's also causing high temperatures, though the the high's would be even higher, were it not for the smoke.
The sun rises a bright red orange and sets the same way. This past Friday was the smokiest, with a thick haze rolling in mid afternoon and lingered through out the night. It was a little eerie.
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| Sunrise Friday morning, before the smoke got really bad. You can see the band of smoke on the horizon. |
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| Sunset on Sunday night. |
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| This is NOT dust, it's smoke on Friday afternoon. If you enlarge this photo, you can barely see the trees at Alicia's house, which is only a half mile away. |
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| And still smokey today. This is the tiny town of Downs that was hardly visible from the Topper place field that we were harvesting today. |
These hazy and smokey conditions are forecast to last through Friday. Daytime temperatures remain fairly high, in the mid-90's, but the nights cool off nicely which is glorious.
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