Northern California wildfire smoke brings hazy skies to Sonoma County

11 August 2021

Northern California wildfire smoke brings hazy skies to Sonoma County

From left, Lucy Whitney, Sarah Jacobs and her daughter Charlotte take Finn for a walk at Crane Creek Regional Park as Smoke from forest fires in far Northern California settles in, Friday, Aug. 6, 2021. (Kent Porter / The Press Democrat) 2021

Hazy skies descended onto Sonoma County Friday as smoke from wildfires further north in the state began to settle in over the North Bay valleys.

Although Friday was likely to be the haziest day of the summer in the North Bay and carry the thickest concentration of smoke over the next three days, an increasing likelihood of patchy fog mixing with smoke overnight means a chance of “fairly reduced visibility” into late Saturday morning, National Weather Service meteorologist Rick Canepa said.

Visibility could be as low as a quarter-mile, he said.

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