They all bounce backup wards. When longer wavelength colors like red, orange and yellow, they travel much further. They pass through the smoke and through our eyes, we see that orange and true red color everywhere. It has to do with the way the light travels. Four major fires outside of the bay area, thats why we are getting choked with all of this smoke. The air quality right now for most of us is moderate to slightly unsligh slightsligh slightly unhealthy. Now coming up, this is real important. I am going to show you what we could get to help clear out the smoke. Well talk about a weaken system and a chance of rain next week. Everybody is looking at this orange skies across the area. The bay bridge shrouded orange and sausolito covered in thick smoke and ash. How long is this staying around and is this going to i am pampa health. I am glad you are wearing that mask and you are wearing the n95, too, marianne. Reporter absolutely. Thats what doctors recommend. It is so smoky and hazy t
Skies blanket the bay area from dawn till dusk. Thanks for joining u. S. Attorney and everybody high Vicki Liviakis and im grant lotus certainly surreal lot of people saying these ominous skies were in a way stunning yet certainly. Unsettling to wake up to hard to know what time it was all day long want to check in first with our chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow. Obviously everyones wondering lawrence is going to happen again tomorrow. Yeah i think well start to see some improvement tomorrow were not going to see asked smoky conditions around the bay area but certainly. Theyll still be some smoke out there we had those north northeasterly winds remember were talking about the high fire danger yesterday, were worried about the real gusty winds. Well, those winds didnt cause or sparking fires around the bay area but we did have a fires that were already burning in far Northern California up you county near paradise they another fire burning there the bear fire lot of smoke filtering i
Now at 11, will it look like mars again when we wake up tomorrow . Weve got live team whether coverage on what to expect. If you feel like the world might be ending, you are not alone. Tonight we get some expert advice on how to cope. A dire warning from climate scientists tonight, if you think the fire and extreme heat are bad now, just wait. Things will get worse until we start being serious about doing something. Now at 11, and streaming on cbsn bay area, these eerie orange scenes all over the region today and people we spoke to kept coming back to one word, apocalyptic. Weve got Team Coverage of this unprecedented situation tonight. Meteorologist paul heggen will join us with a closer look at this otherworldly set up. That is exactly the right word. These are not pictures of her, they are from the surface of mars and titan. So literally the bay area looked like Something Else in the solar system today. I want to get into why exactly the atmosphere looked orange, why not green or pu
Smoke so thick the sunlight could barely shine through. Across the bay area people woke up confused as they looked like night. Ktvu was flooded with photos from our viewers who pulled out the cameras to capture the eerie orange glow that lasted for much of the day. Ktvus Jana Katsuyama joins us with more on how it all unfolded. Reporter this really was a first for many people here. This darkness during the day and the orange glow, for many businesses this was yet another setback. Almost like a dream, the entire bay area woke up to this. It felt like we were living on mars. Weed couldnt figure out what time it was, even if the afternoon was so dark and orange and red. It was apocalyptic. By 10 00 it was darker than it was at 7 00 a. M. Reporter the darkness and orange tent stretched from the bank and east contra costa county, like a nuclear fallout. Ash flying from the sky covered cards and straits. In San Francisco my friend said she had a hose down her car twice before it got all off.
Alone. Tonight we get some expert advice on how to cope. A dire warning from climate scientists tonight, if you think the fire and extreme heat are bad now, just wait. Things will get worse until we start being serious about doing something. Now at 11, and streaming on cbsn bay area, these eerie orange scenes all over the region today and people we spoke to kept coming back to one word, apocalyptic. Weve got Team Coverage of this unprecedented situation tonight. Meteorologist paul heggen will join us with a closer look at this otherworldly set up. That is exactly the right word. These are not pictures of her, they are from the surface of mars and titan. So literally the bay area looked like Something Else in the solar system today. I want to get into why exactly the atmosphere looked orange, why not green or purple, thats because of the smoke, but specifically how the sunlight interacts with that smoke. Just think of the light broken up in the rainbow, on one side is blue and violet wi