Residents across the Bay Area awoke Wednesday morning, September 9, 2020, to smoky red skies, a result of fires raging all over the state. Climate change has, among other things, made California’s fire season more extreme.
Extremely intense fire updrafts have injected vast amounts of smoke & ash into upper atmosphere as high as 50,000 feet–20,000 above cruising altitude of jet airliners. Dense smoke throughout entire atmospheric column is blocking nearly all sunlight at surface. #CAwx #CAfire https://t.co/b5dIzzbDbz
— Daniel Swain (@Weather_West) September 9, 2020
