Here in Southern California we don’t have the apocalyptic skies from hell of our colleagues in the Bay Area, but even down here things are a bit more orange than usual. This is about an hour before sunset yesterday, with the sun barely visible behind the smoke cloud and the nearby sky turned a ruddy yellow/orange. It’s actually kind of pretty in a JMW Turnerish sort of way if you don’t think too hard about what’s causing it.
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