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Residents of San Francisco, Oakland and the greater Bay Area are sharing images of the apocalyptic morning light as a record heatwave fuels local fires. Though concerning, meteorologists explain that the air quality isn’t as bad as it looks.

Residents of San Francisco, Oakland and the greater Bay Area are sharing images of the apocalyptic morning light as a record heatwave fuels local fires. Though concerning, meteorologists explain that the air quality isn’t as bad as it looks.

  1. Sep 9

    Bay Area awakes to foreboding, smoke-choked orange skies. Here's why

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  2. Sep 9

    good morning, hell

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    The sky over Oakland keeps getting darker and more orange. My phone kept color correcting the actual hue so I busted out my real camera

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  4. Sep 9

    Driving across the Golden Gate Bridge at 9:20 IN THE MORNING.

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  5. Sep 9

    Transamerica, Columbus, 9:30 am

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    everything is perfectly normal here in Oakland at 10 AM. – at Emeryville Marina

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  7. Sep 9

    Hard to take a photo and show how orange the sky is this morning in the Bay Area

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    Our phones can’t even believe how orange the sky is this morning

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    You can literally see where my phone decides to adjust the color
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  9. Sep 9

    Absolutely no filter involved here. This is the morning sky over San Francisco at 8am. Orange, dark and ashy bc of wildfires. I was two days away from my 8th birthday when Mt. St. Helens shook the planet. I’m from Seattle-Tacoma and i remember the sky looked just like this.

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  10. Sep 9

    The view from "Mount Vision" near Point Reyes per 's . Notice the other regional cams around the North Bay show a similar view.

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  11. Sep 9

    West Coast this morning. Smothered in smoke.

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  12. Sep 9

    I don’t even know which fire this is. Is this the , the , the , the or just one undifferentiated smoke mass with the residuals of the , and ?

    Truly wild to be waking up to another apocalyptic orange sky this morning. Can anyone’s camera capture it well?? Mine keeps color correcting like “oh no your sky can’t be THAT orange right now” 📸
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  13. Sep 9
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    It’s all of them unfortunately

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  14. Sep 9
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    Air quality isn't as bad as it looks (at least for now)

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  15. Sep 9
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    Article about why we have yellow/orange color but decent AQI. "The polluted air is hovering high in the atmosphere above the marine layer that pushed inland from the Pacific Ocean [yesterday] morning. The smoke is not able to mix down through the inversion

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  16. Sep 9

    Remember yesterday how we talked about strong winds keeping the smoke aloft? Well those winds are weakening as we speak, now allowing smoke, even ash, to reach the surface.

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  17. Sep 9
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    Does this mean the sky might be blue tomorrow?!

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    Unfortunately probably not

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  19. Sep 9

    Red Flag Warnings have EXPIRED for the North Bay Mountains, East Bay Hills and Santa Cruz Mountains. Winds are weakening and the fire threat is much lower. However you can all see the weaker winds have allowed smoke to smother the Bay Area skies.

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  20. Sep 9

    The sky is orange this morning. To keep track of air quality near you in San Francisco and the rest of the Bay Area, bookmark this page:

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  21. Sep 8

    According to authorities, over 200 people have been airlifted out from areas affected by the Creek Fire.

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