The smoke being generated from the wildfires burning out west is the cause. That means this smoke has traveled about 2,500 miles across America. It’s not just giving the sky a weird look; the air quality is also being affected.
The Los Angeles Times reported California wildfires in 2020 not only reached the East Coast but England as well. Here’s what the forecast map looked like from the National Weather Service in September of 2020 from their Twitter page.
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Hopefully, the haze won’t hamper your view of what’s to come tonight. The next full moon is on the 2021 calendar. According to The Farmer’s Almanac, these evenings rising is called the Buck Moon. You should start to see it about 10:37 PM ET. Its name comes from the season when Bucks begin to grow their new antlers.
The planets will line up on December 21 and appear to form a double planet. The Great Conjunction, also nicknamed the “Christmas Star” or “Star of Bethlehem”, hasn t been seen for 800 years. According to Forbes, a “once-in-a-lifetime” sighting of this proportion won’t occur again until 2080 and then sometime after 2400.
What is the Christmas Star? Jupiter and Saturn will venture close to one another and appear to be colliding later this month. The gas giantswill be closer in the night sky over Christmas than they have been for centuries. But NASA said in reality, they ll actually be hundreds of millions of miles apart.