It happens also to have turned the afternoon sky a deep Mars-like red. It was quite a fascinating sight, lots of people comparing it to Blade Runner 2049 or Instagram filters.
I'm in London for the O'Reilly Software Architects conference and I looked out my window at one point and was like "woah" that's an ominous orange sky. It was really cool and weird.
Carrying dust from Sahara, but also smoke from all the wildfires in Portugal right now.
Heh, we have a similar experience here in the bay area from all the wild fires.
Confirmed. The iOS weather app even listed “Smoke” instead of “Cloudy” or “Overcast.” It’s not funny though. For example, my folks live on a mesa surrounded by pine trees and vegetation on three sides. Last week, an intentionally-set fire (quickly contained) took out their phone lines.