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Ash is Falling in Seattle
« on: September 05, 2017, 01:34:19 PM »
The updated forecast for Seattle:   ash flurries today with low visibility and cooling smoke shade. 

I have been forecasting around here for a long time and have never seen a situation like this, with ash falling around western Washington and a smoke cloud so dense one would think it is low stratus deck.   No sun was visible this morning.

I am mean this is something new.

Outside my home there is ash on all horizontal surfaces.   To illustrate, here is a photo taken by Logan Johnson, the head of the Seattle NWS office, from his home in Bothell.  His car looks like it has a bad case of dandruff.

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Re: Ash is Falling in Seattle
« Reply #1 on: September 05, 2017, 01:38:31 PM »
I woke up this morning to a light dusting of ash on everything. The air is heavy and acrid. The sun came up over the hillside and was the most intense orange I have ever seen.

Wildfires in British Columbia and Eastern Washington aren't unusual but smoke from them transversing the Cascades and flowing down into the Puget Sound area where I live is unheard of.

On the good side, it was forecast to reach 98 degrees today and now they're saying 90.

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Re: Ash is Falling in Seattle
« Reply #2 on: September 05, 2017, 02:57:38 PM »
You're safe, though?
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Re: Ash is Falling in Seattle
« Reply #3 on: September 05, 2017, 04:01:47 PM »
As safe as ever. It's less smoky than when I used to play in the bars - and probably better smelling too ;'}

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Re: Ash is Falling in Seattle
« Reply #4 on: September 05, 2017, 06:02:31 PM »
  Don't let it just sit on your car that will do a number on the paint.
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Re: Ash is Falling in Seattle
« Reply #5 on: September 05, 2017, 09:42:52 PM »
  Don't let it just sit on your car that will do a number on the paint.

Thanks JF - I washed it off right away. I don't know if it was a cooincidence or not but at one point today my smoke alarm started chirping. Not a steady alarm but a series of chirps about a minute apart.

I went ahead and installed a fresh battery...

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Re: Ash is Falling in Seattle
« Reply #6 on: September 05, 2017, 10:01:12 PM »
  I had one with a little spider web in it and it took ma a while to figure that one out.
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Re: Ash is Falling in Seattle
« Reply #7 on: September 06, 2017, 06:55:31 AM »


It's kinda purdy though...from a distance.
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