San Francisco sky turns orange due to California fires

Posted on 10 September 2020

Residents in the San Francisco Bay Area awoke to apocalyptic scenes on Wednesday, September 9 as the skies over the area turned a dark shade of orange as a result of the California fires.

As the National Weather Service explained in a tweet, ‘Unprecedented amount of smoke in the atmosphere as a record number of acres burn across California & the West.’

The scenes in San Francisco depict just how bad the wild fires are in California. The Creek Fore and and North Complex Fire in California are located 321 kilometres away from San Francisco bay.

‘When the smoke and ash get even thicker close to the wildfires, it can cut the sunlight out completely, making it look like the dead of night,’ CNN meteorologist Judson Jones said.

Take a look at some of the images local residents posted to social media about how the fires have affected their areas.

 

According to CNBC, the Creek fire, which started on Friday has already destroyed more than 160,000 of land and is 0% contained. There are currently 14,000 active firefighters trying to contain 28 major blazes across California. In total, wildfires have burned more than 2.5 million acres of land in the state and killed eight people throughout 2020, according to BBC.

‘It feels like the end of the world,’ Catherine Geeslin, who lives in the West Portal area of the city, told the San Francisco Chronicle. ‘It was alarming to see it’s still dark. And it will be strange to have lunch in the dark. But you still have to get on with your day.’

 

Image credit: Twitter/@chrismichel

 

 






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