Smoke gets in your eyes...blotting out the sun...

[2naSalit]

23. Just like campfire smoke, indeed.

Yeah, I think proximity makes it worse the closer you are. More particulate sizes available... and that's what it was like in the west, like you're seeing it now.Last summer,as I was in transit during my move, I drove into the smoke plume as I entered SD and it stayed with me, along with the heat, all the way here and then stuck around for at least a week. Add that onto my transition of a 4000ft elevation drop and I was roughing it for weeks. Even suffered a bout of heat exhaustion and had to get re-hydrated at the ER after about ten days of it. It did get into triple digit territory a few times, that used to be unheard of in these parts, same as you!

Not doing the garden thing this year, no access to nearby turf.