The fires around California continue to spew smoke all around the Sacramento Valley. The evening moon-set showed a very orange moon, and the sunrise was more “sun-red”. Visibility is still 5-10 miles around here.

And the fires up in Paradise (about 90 miles north of here) are getting very aggressive. Over 40 homes destroyed, and 7000 people evacuated. This is the same area that burned a couple of weeks ago.

The weather here is really hot, with some dry winds that aren’t helping. The official high yesterday in Sacramento was 107, but my car’s outside thermometer showed 111 on the way home yesterday. Today’s high is supposed to be 109, as is tomorrow. And our usual overnight cool down isn’t working now; overnight temps about 75. So the AC stays on overnight.

Of course, as we say around here, “It’s a dry heat.” Humidity is under 30%, although some weather stations are reporting higher humidity, but I think that is because of all the smoke in the air. So the heat could be worse. (I’ve experienced ‘worse’ – a trip to the Texas coast during the summer when the temps and humidity were both in the 90’s all night long.)

Supposed to get a bit cooler this weekend; just the upper 90’s. But all that heat is not helping those firefighters, many of whom have been working for 3-4 weeks straight.

Be careful out there!

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