High haze and the colorful sunsets over Atlanta this week are the result of smoke from a distant source -- wildfires in Canada, according to Kirk Mellish, meteorologist for News 95.5 and AM 750 WSB.
"For several days smoke from Canadian wildfires has been spreading across much of the eastern part of the nation; brush fires in parts of the U.S. are now adding on to that," Mellish wrote in his blog on wsbradio.com. "Even in the absence of clouds, instead of looking blue, the sky has been hazy milky white daytime and more colorful than usual at sunrise and sunset."
Atlantans can't smell it, and the smoke is too high in the atmosphere to affect breathing on the ground, Mellish said.
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You can hear Kirk Mellish and his accurate and dependable weather forecast every six minutes mornings during Atlanta’s Morning News with Scott Slade on News 95.5 and AM 750 WSB.
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