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Topics => Weather, Climate, & Natural Disasters => Topic started by: Alphabet Soup on September 05, 2017, 01:34:19 PM
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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.
More: http://cliffmass.blogspot.com/ (http://cliffmass.blogspot.com/)
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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.
whoopee!
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You're safe, though?
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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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Don't let it just sit on your car that will do a number on the paint.
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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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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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(https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GLCYGCkUd2M/Wa1lAoCDo4I/AAAAAAAArU8/ZC4EtTLiwX4_W652XhecgkMU5N9iwA30QCLcBGAs/s1600/IMG_2222.jpg)
It's kinda purdy though...from a distance.