Kevin Simler

What is it about smoke that makes it behave differently from clouds/water vapor? I imagine they have different densities, but don’t know if that’s true or if it’s a particularly relevant factor. Also smoke doesn’t depend on temperature the ways clouds do?

So in this loop, I imagine the smoke is acting differently than the clouds purely based on how high it is. Marine layer is too low to get into land, some of the smoke is low enough to work its way into the valleys, some is higher & gets pushed northeast.