Those Smoky Summer Days!

Today as I got ready to leave the house around 10 a.m. today, I realized something. It wasn't bright and sunny outside as it has been for the past week and as it will most likely be for the next 40 days at least. It was actually cloudy and cooler as a result (it's only 31 degrees outside now, as opposed to the forecast 36 degrees).

Must be a stray summer thunderstorm in the area, I figured since this is the summer thunderstorm season (I am not calling it a monsoon because the "North American monsoon" is not a true monsoon like the Asian monsoon. Ask me for details if you're interested, although I seriously doubt any of you will be) for the intermountain West. Well, apparently, those aren't clouds up there but smoke! It's smoke from forest fires in the Sierra Nevada which is being blown northwards into northern San Joaquin and the Sacramento Valley, where I live.

I love California weather, it's so interesting! I can honestly say this is the first time I've seen the sky blotted out by smoke, not even in Bangalore have I seen that.