[h=1]Why so much smoke in Seattle from B.C. wildfires? ?Nature?s air conditioning? is broken, weather service says[/h] Originally published August 2, 2017 at 8:51 am Updated August 2, 2017 at 1:23 pm
Seattle's heat wave and the hazy, smoky air from British Columbia are due to this phenomenon: Our usual Pacific Ocean breeze isn't blowing. By
Christine Clarridge
Seattle Times staff reporter
It?s one of those good-news, bad-news situations.
The
smoke from fires raging in British Columbia have been swept down to the Puget Sound region by winds blowing from the interior of the continent toward the Pacific Ocean. On one hand, the wildfire smoke is
harming our air quality, and people with asthma are likely to feel it.
On the other hand? The layer of smoke acts like a sunshine shield, which happens to be deploying at the beginning of Washington state?s
intense heat wave....
