San Francisco 9:30 am

[GGD]

August West wrote:
Well, I guess stocking up pn masks had a fringe benefit. Good luck, Bay Area!!

If you recall at the start of the pandemic a number of tech companies including Apple donated huge stockpiles of N95 masks. The reason they had those in the first place was to protect their employees from the smoke from wildfires.

https://www.businessinsider.com/heres-wh...ate-2020-3

Large institutions like Facebook, Apple, and Goldman Sachs have donated masks to healthcare workers amid shortages during the coronavirus outbreak, several news agencies reported.

Facebook donated 720,000 masks out of its emergency reserve, Reuters reported; Apple donated 9 million masks...

These organizations had these mask supplies as a means to protect employees from other threats, such as wildfires....

[numbered]

What's is funny is that it is dark, like twilight, not just orange. But there is no smell of smoke. Apparently our famous 'marine layer' (aka the fog) is creating a thermal barrier. We have significant ash fall, but no smell.

Very, very strange.

[GGD]

numbered wrote:
What's is funny is that it is dark, like twilight, not just orange. But there is no smell of smoke. Apparently our famous 'marine layer' (aka the fog) is creating a thermal barrier. We have significant ash fall, but no smell.

Very, very strange.

I had to close all of the windows, my wife was complaining of ash accumulating on the windowsills.

[wave rider]

So dark this morning, I went back to bed and slept in. 1:35PM now and it is still dark.

Crazy!

[d4]

GGD wrote:
...finally got the house cooled off with the windows open overnight....

Is it wise to keep the windows open when you're sleeping even if your nose doesn't smell smoke? I guess since you're alive to post on MRF it was ok last night. Not sure I would risk it if it was me. I'd keep the windows shut with AC on recirculate until this passes.

[RgrF]

The Pacific Northwest as well, this is Salem Oregon yesterday:



and their air quality index today:

(right click images)

[GGD]

d4 wrote:
[quote=GGD]
...finally got the house cooled off with the windows open overnight....

Is it wise to keep the windows open when you're sleeping even if your nose doesn't smell smoke? I guess since you're alive to post on MRF it was ok last night. Not sure I would risk it if it was me. I'd keep the windows shut with AC on recirculate until this passes.
I check the air quality index before opening windows and before going to bed, don't really trust my nose for that. Even now with the sun blocked out, my AQI is 84.

[mikebw]

More like Salem, Or-ange-gon !

[hal]

numbered wrote:
What's is funny is that it is dark, like twilight, not just orange. But there is no smell of smoke. Apparently our famous 'marine layer' (aka the fog) is creating a thermal barrier. We have significant ash fall, but no smell.

Very, very strange.

like that all the way to sacramento - very strange

[RAMd®d]

Around here it was almost as bad.

At near 1500hrs it's as dark as 0600, just a bit less orange.

As in many other areas, little smoke smell.