Where's the Fire?

The fire is everywhere. Check out the satellite image: all those little red blobs are fire areas. I don't have to repeat the number. If you've been reading/watching the news, you know almost a million people have been evacuated; thousands of houses lost, hundreds of thousands of acres burned.

The funny thing is I haven't seen a lick of flame. Most people who live in the city proper haven't, either. But we can see the smoke. It looks like we've bee having cloudy days with a general overcast. Only the clouds are a light brown-yellow and they are 100% smoke. If the fires weren't blazing, the skies would be clear blue.

Also, it's kicked back up into the 90s and triple digits all week. Supposedly the high will move to the east and an onshore breeze will bring cooler, more humid days; the Santa Ana winds will die down and the fires will be put out. Until then, the thick clouds and the astringent smell of smoke will continue to linger over the southern part of the state.