orange ball in the spooky sky...

[20three]

the sky looks kind of evil this morning...perhaps it's all of the fires and now the smoke is filling the sky - or some weird smog thing. Who knows - I'm still trying to understand if this is fall in California or if summer just kind of continues on until the winter. These are the months that I have never been in California for before

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[typefiend]

The strange coloured sky is due to the multiple fires in Burbank and Fontana...freaky looking. Combine that with some of the smog that's been hanging around due to the hot weather, and you've got some unattractive looking air. Those oxygen bars now seem like a good idea....

[20three]

ick...it almost makes me not want to go outside and breath in the air.

do the winds come in and clear this stuff out?

[speedball]

The wind can clear it out, if it's a Santa Ana wind (the one that blows down from the mountains out to the coast). The other option would be rain. There usually is a slight breeze that heads out to sea at night, which clears some of it out, but not a whole lot...

I think we're looking at November before you can actually see the mountains in any sort of detail again...

Oh, and as for the fall/winter situation: Summer tends to linger until about mid to late October. Then there's a couple of weeks of blistery fall winds, and then it warms up again for no apparent reason, other than to complain about the fact that it shouldn't be 80 degrees on Christmas day...After that, we finally get a little bit of rain in January, and then February hits, and it's time for "Stormwatch 200*", where we watch Southern California as a whole freak out at more than an inch of rain falling.

Welcome to L.A. :)

Kurt

[typefiend]

Just wait...soon enough the Santa Ana winds come and blow everything, smog and all, away. In many ways I prefer a little smog to the seasonal hot, dry winds we're plagued by as a desert city. I read a few times over that domestic violence and murder rates go up during the Santa Ana winds days....