The national smoke model shows heavy smoke radiating out of California, Oregon and Washington into the rest of the west, even extending to the state of Maine and the Canadian Maritime provinces.
But while people in low lying parts of Western Washington aren’t smelling much, if anything, the smoke is hovering above us as an onshore flow keeps cleaner air in Puget Sound.
So far, it’s not as bad as this time in 2017, when smoke was coming down from fires in British Columbia. Later in the season, much of the west was covered in heavy smoke, Puget Sound even saw ash on cars in early September from fires near Cle Elum and across the Columbia River in Oregon.
