Bay Area sky turns bright orange
When Bay Area residents thought that the world outside could not get even stranger, the sky Wednesday early glowed a bright pumpkin orange you'd expect to see on Mars. "I don’t remember orange skies growing up in in the Bay Area, California," shared one Twitter user. Jan Null, a meteorologist who runs a private forecasting service called Golden Gate Weather Services said that, Winds are pushing smoke from the north, where multiple wildfires are raging to the south and into the Bay Area. Null continued, "North winds are bringing lots of smoke from Oregon." National Weather Service forecaster Roger Gass said a weather spotter reported falling ash at the Concord Airport. "They reported a huge amount of ash," said Gass. "Almost to the point where it looked like moderate to heavy snow." While the sooty air in the East Bay settled close to the surface, across most of the Bay Area the smoke was high in the atmosphere with the air quality ranging fro