Friday, September 18, 2020

Hazy Day of Summer #SkywatchFriday

All we, in upstate New York now, have to do is look at the sky.


September 15, around 12:30 pm.  A beautiful late summer day.

Around 5pm that same day.....same general area.


Yes, that's the haze from the wildfires that are some 3,000 miles away from us.

I was a bit surprised when I looked at these pictures.  It hadn't looked that bad to my eye.  I was going to delete these but then I decided, these pictures are something to ponder.

If this is what the sky looks like 3,000 miles from the event, what are people in the middle of this going through?

Sobering. Once again, thinking of our Internet and real life friends on the West Coast.

The 16th and 17th were more of the same.  We have a cold front coming through, which may clear our air, and may also bring an unseasonable early frost.

So hard to believe this is the last Skywatch of the summer of 2020.

What a year for this world.

Joining Yogi and the bloggers of #SkywatchFriday.

19 comments:

  1. I am also watching sky from down the road! Tweeted.

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  2. ...we all need to take a global view!

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  3. Lovely photos. Being 3000 miles away from the fires I imagine your air quality is still okay. I hope everything abates soon.

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  4. We are all connected. It's why states sued each other to get them to turn off their coal power plants- the pollution knows no state borders.

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  5. It's shocking how far that hazy smoke can travel. My heart breaks for the devastation the people out west are experiencing.

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  6. Summer came, and then it went.
    I visited the Tetons and Yellowstone back in 2018 and the haze made for some horrible pics.

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  7. I'm shocked and saddened that our fires here in the west are negatively impacting the entire country. I can't recall a time when this has happened before. I haven't heard about any of the local fires being contained, so I guess it's going to continue for a while.

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  8. Beautiful pictures, despite the haze. My heart aches for those caught in the middle. Here in northern Alberta, we are having smoke warnings. Last night, our blood-red sun and thick haze and smell of burning were stark reminders.

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  9. I can't imagine what those people in California are going through. Your pictures are both beautiful and scary.

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    1. Yes, sorry about that... I read the smoke has reached Europe.

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  10. You should see it here in Colorado! YUCK! But at least our homes aren't burning down...

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  11. I have a friend with asthma living in WA state. Breathing is painful. We're all in this together and somehow we have to grow up and deal with global warming like adults.

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  12. Alana,

    I don't think the wildfires are affecting our skyview. We've seen some lovely blue skies from our window. We're in for a cool snap this weekend, too. I mean nightly low in the mid-40s which seem a bit early to me but I won't complain. It's been then being too hot. I will need to put on an extra blanket tonight. :) Have a great weekend, my friend.

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  13. So that's where all our smoke went. We're actually getting blue skies again. Although, I'm not terribly close to any of the fires. I mean, close-ish, I am in California, but they're further out than me.

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