Orange Skies Day - Wikipedia
WEBOrange Skies Day was a climatological event that occurred in the San Francisco Bay Area on September 9, 2020. [1] [2] The orange-colored hue in the sky was the result of smoke from the North Complex Fire (including the Bear Fire) and more than 20 other wildfires, which burned more than 2 million acres east of the San Francisco Bay Area. [3]
Remembering the day smoke-choked skies cast an eerie dark ... - CBS News
WEBSep 9, 2022 · People across the San Francisco Bay Area on Friday were remembering the sinister hue the skies took on the two-year anniversary of the day wildfire smoke turned the sky an apocalyptic shade...
Bay Area skies have turned orange during the wildfires, photos show - CNN
WEBSep 9, 2020 · The Bay Area in California awoke Wednesday to a scene straight out of Mars. Orange and even red skies blanketed San Francisco, Oakland and Berkeley, and ash rained down, with wildfires...
'Like a scene from Mars': Skies in parts of California turn orange as ...
WEBSep 9, 2020 · SAN FRANCISCO — Parts of the West Coast woke up Wednesday to orange skies, an ominous effect of rapidly spreading wildfires that have destroyed homes and forced thousands of people to evacuate in...
One year ago, San Francisco was glowing orange from wildfire …
WEBAs the sun rose on Sept. 9, 2020, the city experienced another unexpected and doomy event, aside from the ongoing pandemic: vivid orange, apocalyptic skies. The Royal Society of Chemistry says...
‘Apocalypse on their mind’: Bay Area transfixed by foreboding, …
WEBMar 9, 2022 · Strange and foreboding red-orange skies and a layer of falling ash greeted Bay Area residents on August 9 as they woke on Wednesday. Fires are to blame, of course, but not a specific fire.
California fire smoke blocks Bay Area sun, creating red haze - Los ...
WEBSep 9, 2020 · From San Francisco to Yosemite, social media was filled with images of ominous red and orange skies and smoky air. It was so dark outside, many residents had interior lights flipped on even as...
The Day the San Francisco Sky Turned Orange | The New Yorker
WEBApr 20, 2021 · On September 9, 2020, a convergence of wildfire smoke and fog cast an eerie tint over the Bay Area. Chris Field, a climate scientist, called the blood-orange skyscape above San Francisco on...
Dramatic photos provide glimpse back at San Francisco Bay Area…
WEBSep 9, 2021 · One year ago the Bay Area saw apocalyptic skies due to the California wildfires from San Francisco and Oakland to San Rafael, Richmond and San Mateo.
The orange skies have faded. But Orange Skies Day is forever
WEBSep 9, 2024 · Both phenomena were weather-related, and both transformed the palette of the city in a way that Bay Area eyes will initially reject. In 2020, the sky turned from blue to orange.