Maybe you’ve noticed that Seattle’s sunrises and sunsets are
particularly colorful lately. If you haven’t seen them in the
sky, you’ve probably seen them on your Facebook feed. (At least,
my own feed seems full of “beautiful sunset” pictures every
evening.) There’s a reason for our pretty orange skies. Heard of
the the wildfires burning in Siberia? Smoke from those fires is
drifting over the ocean and lending hazy color to our horizon at
dusk and dawn. “I believe many of you…particularly those near
the coast and northwest Washington will be able to see the
smoke, particularly at sunset, where the sun should look redder
than normal,” UW meteorologist Cliff Mass recently noted on his
blog. Here’s what that smoke looked like from space recently,
courtesy of NASA. As NASA recently noted: Russian firefighters
have battled uncontrolled fires for months. According to the
environmental group Greenpeace, more land in Russia had burned
in 2012 than in 2010, a year that intense wildfires affected
western Russia. ITAR-TA