Tuesday, August 21, 2018

Disappearing Sun

8/20/18 The smoky sun at 7:20 p.m.

The air quality in the Puget Sound region has now cranked up to the “very unhealthy” and “hazardous” level. Coming home yesterday from a short visit to the Twin Cities, which were also hazy from Canadian wildfire smoke over the weekend, I was dismayed to see the thick cover of bad air as we descended into Sea-Tac.

Last night around 7:20 p.m., still an hour from sunset, the sun was a beautiful/terrible orange ball in the brownish-gray fog. In the 10 minutes I took to sketch this, the sun kept fading and then literally disappeared behind the smoke screen surrounding us.

2 comments:

  1. Yikes! We’ve had bad air here also, though not hazerdous. I live in the Sacramento valley and we’ve been living with moderate air and unhealthy air for a couple of weeks. Hope it gets better soon for you!

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    1. I'm sure it's been bad in California, too! So many terrible fires. It's supposed to clear up here by Thursday!

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