I live on the SF South Bay. The haze is smoky. The air smells like smoke and is rated Unhealthy. People shouldn’t exercise outside.
They say it might rain next week.
@jym626 today in SF/North Bay/Oakland:
AQI: 176 Unhealthy
I agree that the haze seems to be getting worse. Still smells like I’m living in a chimney. But did not notice ash on my H’s car today… good news?
Rain not in forecast now until after Thanksgiving 
but humidity predicted to rise, so hopefully the ocean breezes will kick in and clean the air up a bit…
I’m sure Cardinal Fang (and my iPhone) is correct “Unhealthy air quality” is posted for a reason. Just watched my friend play a 9-inning softball game in Walnut Creek without any lingering thoughts of the poor air quality BUT it cannot be healthy. My bigger concern would be the toxic chemicals that are in the air at present.
https://cfpub.epa.gov/airnow/index.cfm?action=airnow.main has current and forecasted air quality.
I am glad the 10k turkey trot is full/sold out as one DIL is asthmatic and that is a bad combo with the air quality there. I would have volunteered to babysit 
This is horrible. 103 people missing in wake of fire (mostly elderly).
https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/14/us/california-fires-camp-woolsey/index.html
I’m glad S is flying home from Stanford for Thanksgiving on Friday. He’s just looking forward to breathing some cleaner air.
@“Cardinal Fang” The oldest parts of New Orleans did not flood after Katrina. The French Quarter and so forth were built on higher ground. Later, people built on the lower areas, then they largely destroyed the barrier vegetation and so on that protected the mainland. They installed pumps to try to keep the sea at bay. The encroachment was generations ago, but the catastrophic flood was pretty much inevitable.
The same kind of thing has happened all over the place.
Just landed in San Jose and the pilot commented on reduced visibility from smoke - I think he said he had 5 miles of visibility. The air was pretty hazy viewed from the plane, but down on the ground here in SJ isn’t too noticeable. I go to SF quite often but glad my next trip there isn’t for a couple of weeks.
Our air quality in So Cal is listed as Good. The smoke is being blown off shore.
@anomander, my husband was checking in for his flight this morning (although not SJC where he regularly travels) and said that Alaska offered fee waivers in flights to some CA destinations. He will be traveling to SJC next week I think.
We are getting some haze here in Seattle.
My friend in Sac took some pictures of the sun yesterday. Very eerie looking.
I feel your pain, this was Seattle last summer and the summer before.
I heard that Monterey Bay half was cancelled due to poor air quality. Yikes.
What’s “Monterey Bay half?”
The air quality was too bad for the runners.
The smoke is obvious; asked about “half.” Now I see it’s “half marathon.” Thank you.
I think one aspect that gets lost is the multiplication of entitlements – and I am not singling out any groups in particular. I’m saying that in CA, for example (might be true in other states as well – I suspect it) various governing bodies seem unable to say No when it comes to spending. Way too many funded pet projects that are not as essential as human life itself. With regard to human life, budgeting for, training, recruiting first responders is critical to reducing the destruction accompanying natural disasters. Assuming few emergency situations, all of those projects may be worthy of funding, but I have gotten the idea for years that CA is one state that budgets for The Ideal rather than (first) The Real. There have been cutbacks in more critical kinds of funding throughout the state.
I was reminded of this this morning when reading about Paradise residents complaining about the insufficient warnings.
Second, forest management will be important to the future because of the expansive Sierra Nevadas – and by the way, plenty of human beings live in and around those mountains. It is true that money for forest management is an area of controversy.
Just saying…
Well, that is what voters have historically said loudly and clearly. Propositions that cut taxes (but not spending) or which increase spending (but not taxes) or which constrain spending to specific types of programs have historically been popular (e.g. propositions 13, 184, and 98 respectively).
@epiphany I heard a radio interview with the mayor? councilwoman? of Paradise and she said one thing that needs to be improved upon is linking warnings to cell phone numbers (v. landlines) and increasing the participant rate (number of citizens who give their cell phone number to the city for such warnings).