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I thought I could taste the smoke today. It's bad.

Bill
Here's a screen grab of video from the Mariners-Athletics baseball game.

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And Eastern Washington is supposed to be worse then western Washington.

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An interesting article in the Seattle Times about how the smoke is throwing off the atmospheric behavior models used by meteorologists - resulting in heavier smoke levels than predicted.

In a nutshell, one of the primary factors that causes mixing of air is the heating of air that occurs at the ground surface due to solar radiation. Like a cloud cover, the smoke cuts down on the amount of solar radiation reaching the ground surface. But unlike a cloud cover, the smoke does trap heat radiated by the ground - that is the element that hasn't been captured in the models.

So with less radiation reaching the ground surface, and no trapping of the heating that does occur, the ground level temps are cooler than predicted. And since cold air is heavier than warm air, the smoke is trapped at the ground surface.
 
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I thought I could taste the smoke today. It's bad.

Bill
I got olfactory deadening on the smoke five or six days ago. Weekend before last, before it got bad, I could smell it all the time. Now no smoke odor sensation at all. Just seems like normal air to my nose.

BTW - it's only smoke that I don't smell. All other sense of smell and taste is normal.
 

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I got olfactory deadening on the smoke five or six days ago. Weekend before last, before it got bad, I could smell it all the time. Now no smoke odor sensation at all. Just seems like normal air to my nose.

BTW - it's only smoke that I don't smell. All other sense of smell and taste is normal.

So you are getting use to it in a way. Same here but I don't like it one bit.

Bill
 

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Getting back to better times in the west - anyone want to guess the general area for this?

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I would guess somewhere between Mt Vernon and Bellingham.

Our air is now in the very unhealthy zone...down 200 points since saturday
 

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Easy one.

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I would guess somewhere between Mt Vernon and Bellingham.

Our air is now in the very unhealthy zone...down 200 points since saturday
Didn't see this reply until now. You're too far north. Note the crops in the fields.
 

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Didn't see this reply until now. You're too far north. Note the crops in the fields.

It looks like a winery view out in the Walla Walla's.

Bill
 

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It looks like a winery view out in the Walla Walla's.

Bill
Getting closer, but WW isn't that green that time of the season (those aren't early season vines). And it doesn't have those types of conifers.
 

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Looks like a lavender farm.
 

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Enough snark. I'm not into lavender farms, so if you're asking for a specific farm, that's out of my league. I can tell that is a Pacific NW forest bordering the field, so it's likely northwest Oregon or western Washington.

Sequim, the Lavender Capital of North America, in western Washington
 

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Grapevines - Yes. Cashmere/Wenatchee - No

Is that the Columbia River in the distance? Otherwise, I was going to guess the Williamette wine area SW of Portland.
 

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Name the place:

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