Smoke from wildfires caused eerie orange-red skies in California. Here is the science of why it happened:
One of my favorite albums is “Under A Blood Red Sky” by U2. This album kept coming to mind as a saw picture after picture of the skies in California this week. While not completely red, the reddish-orange hue of the sky was undeniable and eery. Many people compared the scenes to something from one of NASA’s Martian rovers. The western U.S. is experiencing an apocalyptic fire season fueled by heat, ample dry vegetation, and even lightning., well over 2 million acres have burned .
Francisco skyline in the background by his friend Laito Miyake, both of San Francisco, as smoky skies from the northern California wildfires casts an orange and yellow color in San Francisco, Calif., on Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2020. You may be tempted to conclude that it is just the color represented by all of the burning fires, but it is far more complex. We have to talk about smoke, aerosols, scattering and something called the marine layer to properly explain what is happening.
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