Old-AF t1_irl8nxy wrote on October 9, 2022 at 2:54 AM

We drove through Cashmere two weeks ago and a week later on the way back from E WA and the air quality there was heinous. I had to mask up, in my car, to breathe. I’d say, if you live there, you surely didn’t think this was a mild fire season.

milleribsen t1_irlqosm wrote on October 9, 2022 at 5:57 AM

I lived in Wenatchee for high school, smoke season is new for Western Washington but not for Eastern. There we always a couple of red days every year, the sky and sun red with smoke. All through the valleys up highway two from Wenatchee to lake Wenatchee

The smoke may have been particularly bad but the fire season was very mild in comparison to previous years, it's just that the fires we have had have been either closer to inhabited areas or in places where the smoke traveled more easily

ConditionSlow t1_irn2ev5 wrote on October 9, 2022 at 2:56 PM

it started much later and will probably end a little earlier if not the same time as before. basically we had an extra six - eight weeks of clean air.

[deleted] t1_irmpbg3 wrote on October 9, 2022 at 1:12 PM

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c0y0t3_sly t1_irooaxq wrote on October 9, 2022 at 9:22 PM

Bigger issue is that somehow it still isn't over. Fire are still burning, it's over 80 degrees everyday, and there's zero rain in the mountain forecast now out to almost Halloween.

It started slow, but it's lingering like I don't think I've ever seen it. I know contained fires will smolder until steady precipitation comes in, but that's not what this is right now.