WEST SEATTLE WEATHER: Clouds and smoke

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(Today’s sunrise – photo by Stewart L.)

This afternoon’s weather can best be described as murky. Not just wildfire smoke, but also some cloud cover has moved in. The smoke is mostly from Oregon, according to the Washington Smoke Information website, an the National Weather Service says the clouds are moving up from the south too. We’ve been watching air-quality readings and they’ve been worsening in the past few hours, so take that into consideration if you have outdoor activity planned. Similar conditions are expected through tomorrow.

Rick September 7, 2024 (4:34 pm)

Is the smoke from wild fires or people just firing wildly?

Rob September 7, 2024 (6:37 pm)

Imagine going back to maybe the 1500s when no one was there to put the fires out. They would burn clear to Idaho

Josh September 8, 2024 (8:18 am)

Did you know that in the 1500s there were over 3 million people living on this hemisphere? Did you know that indigenous peoples, especially those of the PNW, practiced proactive forest and land management that included controlled forest burns? Your assumptions that our modern way of life is somehow more integrated and intelligent when it comes to resource management as compared to the peoples who had figured out how to live on this continent just fine long before the Boston ever showed show just how ignorant and racist the outlook of so many people remains.
- Smokeythebear September 8, 2024 (9:59 am)
  
  Did YOU know that wood smoke is 12 times more toxic than a cigarette?(EPA research.) and that people who cooked and burned / lived around wood smoke died younger in ‘historic’ times. That’s reality.