[Ski]

going to be all bye-bye for smoke in a few hours. https://wsdot.com/travel/real-time/cameras/road/101/Aberdeen/Forks

[treeswarper]

It is raining lightly here in the Okanogan Valley.

[Lazyhiker]

I hear people complaining about the present, but when asked the last time the smoke was really bad, they can’t recall. It’s been 10 years since we had smoke this bad in the Wenatchee Valley and it was much worse. We get a little smoke every fire season but it’s not terrible and it’s transient. People like to bitch about the smoke and forest closures due to fires. It’s affluenza, we’ve still got it good here.

[grannyhiker]

Smoke in Troutdale disappeared overnight--AQI was an amazing 16 this morning! It started raining about 10:30 am. So far it's a light rain, which hopefully will soften up the ground surface and soak in. I hope that all of you are also smoke free by now!

[Navy salad]

Much better here in Woodinville, and ... it's still raining! With more to come! ♫♫ Let it rain, let it rain, let it rain ♫♫ (at least till the forests are wet and the smoke's all gone, then I want sunshine!)

[Cyclopath]

[Riverside Laker]

I feel like I just gave up smoking. Now to go exercise again.

[Chief Joseph]

I smell smoke, but only because I fired up the wood stove in here for the first time this year, a balmy 70 degrees and the cat is loving it! Wood shed is also full, took advantage of the USFS free wood cutting permits and picked up a cord up off Mallardy and some off Coal lake road. My well is still dry though, it hasn't rained much yet.

[Tom]

Be careful driving out there today. First rain in a long time combined with build up of oil on roadways makes for super slick conditions.

[joker]

[Pyrites]

Anyone else wonder if there’s a group of scientists out grabbing stormwater first discharge samples to look quantities of 6ppd-quinone in salmon bearing streams?

[kiliki]

[Ski]

^ meh... won't matter if they do or don't. they'll never get that chemical out of every tire in the world, and the reason the snow crab population dropped so precipitously this last season is because water temperatures in the North Pacific are now too warm to sustain some marine life (like snow crabs.) the salmon will be the next victims. they require cold water. so do whales.

[grannyhiker]

For the Portland area, this spell wasn't nearly as bad as the aftermath of the Labor Day 2020 fires. We were at an AQI of 500 or more for over a week. It wasn't as hot, though, because the smoke was so thick it blocked the sun. On the other hand, hazardous is hazardous, even though some hazards are bigger.

[HikingBex]

Snowing up at Washington Pass and even sticking to the trees a bit!