May 26, 2007

Holy Smoke Batman!!!!

I am sure most of you have heard the news reports of the fires in South Georgia. Well, this morning.... OMG!! While out and about I got to noticing the smell of smoke and was looking and listening for news of any locals fires....

You can see this smoke ....You can smell it in the air.. You can look off in the distance and notice the entire sky is VERY hazy. It is a very eerie landscape...

Here is part of the news clipping....


High levels were measured Tuesday in McDonough, near downtown Atlanta and in Gwinnett County. Last week, the smoke also affected the Athens and Augusta areas.
The smoke, from fires about 250 miles away, began moving into metro Atlanta between 4 and 5 a.m., reducing visibility at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport from 10 miles at 4 a.m. to only 3 miles an hour later.
The airport reported visibility of just 1.5 miles at 7, 8 and 9 a.m. By 10 a.m., the visibility had improved slightly to 2 miles.
Forecasters at the National Weather Service said southeasterly winds sent the smoke over metro Atlanta, and a low-level inversion - where a layer of warmer air was on top of cooler air at the surface - pushed the smoke to ground-level.
The Weather Service said warming temperatures later in the morning, along with a shift in winds, should help dissipate the smoke.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

J and I noticed the smoke on Wednesday but didn't know where it was coming from.