Like on Mars: because of the fires, the sky in California turned into an unusual color

When they woke up on Wednesday morning, September 9, the Bay Area residents of California might well have thought they were on Mars. Writes about it CNN.

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Orange and even red skies covered San Francisco, Oakland and Berkeley, ash flew in the air, and forest fires raged in the distance.

"When smoke and ash become thicker near wildfires, this mixture can completely block out sunlight, making the day feel like the dead of night," CNN meteorologist Judson Jones explained.

Residents saw a reddish sky, which seemed to be night, although it was morning. Winds from afar bring smoke from forest fires. Both the Creek Fire and the North Complex Fire burn over 200 miles away, but their presence can be felt in the Bay Area. Other places such as Salem (Oregon) are experiencing similar apocalyptic pictures.

Golden Gate Bridge this morning in what looks like an apocalyptic scene from a film. san francisco, #Californiapic.twitter.com/BpyEZDZ1ae

— Crisis Intel? (@Crisis_Intel) September 9, 2020

Massive puffs of smoke from wildfires raging across California have led to the Bay Area's longest air quality warnings ever recorded: 25 consecutive days and warnings are still posted.

? # BREAKING [??] Apocalyptic sky in #SanFrancisco: The city wakes up shrouded in smoke and full of ash from the 25 active #wildfires in #California, #USA.pic.twitter.com/TTOVE9G6qU

- ISCResearch (@ISCResearch) September 9, 2020

Wildfires rage in the western United States

“Smoke and ash act like nature’s version of an Instagram filter,” Jones said. “Particles in the air refract sunlight, similar to what happens when the sun sets or rises.”

Photo: Facebook / Olga Podolskaya

The particles scatter shorter wavelengths of blue and green so that we cannot see them.

“It was surreal,” wrote Sneha Patil. “It seemed to me that I woke up on Mars!”

Michelle McKeown from Oakland saw houses in her neighborhood with lights on at 10 a.m.

“It feels eerie and apocalyptic and scary,” McKeown said. “I’ve lived in the Bay Area since 1988 and I’ve never seen anything like this.”

Climatologist Peter Gleick attempted to capture the dark sky around his Berkeley home and said the camera had failed.

Photo: Facebook / Olga Podolskaya

“Living in Northern California since 1978,” Gleick wrote. - I have never seen such a sky. It’s like midnight (at 10:15) but instead of black the sky is dark red.”

Glake, founder of the independent, nonpartisan Center for Climate and Water Research in Auckland, has studied climatology for 35 years.

This is a surreal shot of what the sky looked like in the Bay Area #California earlier today. That orange glow ...pic.twitter.com/sv8umU8xdK

- MJVentrice (@MJVentrice) September 9, 2020

According to him, what he saw outside the window is a sign of climate change.

“Climate change has a clear and unequivocal impact on wildfires: heat and higher temperatures, more severe drought, more dead trees, more severe weather conditions including winds,” Gleick concluded.

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