A good chunk of Eastern Washington, Idaho, Montana, and Oregon are all on fire. The smoke has accumulated over Seattle.
This is the sun. This is ash falling from the sky. This is...heckin' creepy, honestly.
Second time this summer.
I am reminded of the images of the same area in... 1980? When Mt. St. Helens erupted
Not quite as much ash this time but still effing scary and bad for the lungs. Protect them!
@emanate @ThatDamnCat I was 9, in California. I remember seeing pictures of the eruption, and of a town downwind getting *coated* in ash, like two feet deep, and then reading an article that showed how the ash from the eruption would blow eastward all the way around the world, but by the time it came back around to California it'd be so dispersed it'd only be detectable chemically, and being kind of disappointed. XD
@ThatDamnCat Yeah, I've seen other folks mentioning that eruption too. That sounded real scary to have been living up here at that time.
(I was in California then, and only a few months old.)