SF News Wildfire Smoke Incoming From Pacific Northwest, Will Likely Stink Up Bay Area By Wednesday Smoke from the dozens of wildfires now burning in the Pacific Northwest is already fouling the air to our north, and it is set to start fouling ours in the next 24 hours.
SF News Smoke From a Central Valley Wildfire, Not the Park Fire, Likely to Enter Bay Area Luckily, at least for those of us in the Bay Area, most of the smoke from the massive Park Fire burning in four inland NorCal counties has not been blowing our direction — at least not yet. But smoke from the Pedro Fire, a much smaller fire that is burning near Modesto, is headed our way.
SF News Smoke From NorCal Fires Beginning to Impact Bay Area Air Quality It's that time of year again, and wildfire smoke primarily coming from lightning-caused fires that broke out last week in far Northern California is now starting to impact air quality in the Bay Area.
SF News Air Quality Advisory Issued for Bay Area Wednesday Afternoon as Oregon Wildfire Smoke Approaches The Bay Area Air Quality Management District warned that smoke from an Oregon wildfire is set to drift into the Bay Area Wednesday afternoon and evening, and residents could see hazy skies and smell soot.
SF News Oak Fire Smoke Floats to Tahoe, Not Bay Area, So Far An air quality advisory issued by the Bay Area Air Quality Management District has been extended to Thursday, and we may still see some haze from the drifting smoke of the Oak Fire here around the Bay. But so far, it hasn't happened as predicted.
SF News Report: Wildfire Smoke Could Double or Triple in Coming Decades, Causing More Wildfires The dirty air from wildfire smoke could occur two to three times more frequently a generation or two down the line, thanks to a vicious cycle that makes the smoky air itself cause more wildfires.
SF News Air Quality District Says Benicia Refinery Has Been Emitting Hazardous Chemicals for 15 Years A recent investigation by the Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD) found that the Valero Benicia refinery in southern Solano County has been emitting hazardous levels of toxic chemicals for years.
SF News Wildfire Smoke Returns to the Bay; and That Wetness You Saw Outside This Morning Was Rain, Kind Of San Francisco saw, like, two one-hundredths of an inch of rain early Thursday, so does that count as rain?
SF News Will This Be the First Wildfire Smoke to Blanket SF? Lava Fire Grows to 20 Square Miles The Lava Fire currently burning east of I-5 in Siskiyou County tripled in size overnight and has now scorched 13,000 acres, or about 20 square miles. The blaze is hundreds of miles from San Francisco, but it's taking shape to being the first truly major fire of the season in our half of the state.
SF News SF Air Quality to Worsen Thursday Night, Improve By Friday Afternoon According to the latest smoke forecast, while fires may get scarier to our north — and while the East Bay hills are under Red Flag Warnings too — the smoke situation in San Francisco will get worse before it gets better.
SF News Possibly Smoky Air, High Surf, High Winds, and High Heat On the Way What happens to the air quality in various parts of the Bay is still anyone's guess as winds are expected to shift and wildfire smoke from either Mendocino County or the southern Central Valley could move our way.
SF News 'Shifting' Wind Conditions Bring Smoke and Poor Air Quality Back to Bay Area Skies Get your last inhales of cool, crisp, breathable air this afternoon — because smokey horizons and worsening air conditions are likely to be over our heads again later this evening.
SF News Air Quality Will Not Hold As Temperatures Rise With High-Pressure System This Weekend Air quality in San Francisco and the Bay Area is predicted to slide into potentially unhealthy territory by Sunday, as an area of high pressure puts an end to the nice marine breeze we've been having for a couple of days that's pushed wildfire smoke away to the north and east.
SF News Bay Area Air Quality Clears As Smoky Air Blows Into Nevada and Tahoe Exactly a week after San Franciscans woke up to a dystopian, dark-orange sky, the city arose to fresh air and blueish/foggy sky on Wednesday morning. How sweet it is.
SF News Air Quality in San Francisco May Continue To Suck Until Mid-Week Smoky air looks to be persisting across the Bay Area until the middle of this week, when — finally — some clean ocean air should begin moving, possibly along with a light storm system and some rain.
SF News Smoky Skies To Last At Least Through Friday As Air Quality Worsens In Bay Area Things weren't quite as orange on Thursday morning as they were a day earlier, though the sky may look like that again before all this is through. And unlike yesterday when ground-level air quality was fairly okay, today's not a day to be walking outside or exercising.
SF News Smoke From Kincade Fire Begins Drifting Toward San Francisco Bay While air quality in San Francisco on Friday remained good, that may be changing as the cloud of smoke from the Kincade Fire near Geyserville grows and shifts tonight into Saturday.
SF News San Francisco Air Remains At 'Unhealthy' Levels Monday Air Quality Orange/Unhealthy. Older adults, kids & ppl w/ heart/lung disease should reduce prolonged/heavy exertion. https://t.co/GkWlfyvpeB pic.twitter.com/I7lsZvZZ3l — San Francisco DEM (@SF_emergency) October 16,
SF News Wildfire Smoke Renders SF Air 'Unhealthy' Through The Weekend After a brief supposed respite Wednesday (it was still quite smoky!), San Francisco air quality is expected to be especially bad today, a result of the ongoing wildfires in the North Bay. While
SF News SF Air Quality Improves As Smoke From NorCal Fires Abates (Somewhat) While San Francisco still smells of smoke and is coated with ash, the situation appears to have improved Wednesday, with air quality reportedly at a less hazardous level today. As previously reported, residents
SF News Smoke From NorCal Fires Gives SF Gorgeous Sunrise, Health Hazards Galore A post shared by Bruce Getty (@gettyphotography) on Oct 10, 2017 at 8:12am PDT As we head into a second full day of out-of-control wildfires across Northern California, residents in
SF News Chevron Gets Fined Over Toxic 'Flaring' In Richmond Remember when there were those huge scary flames over the Richmond Chevron refinery just before Christmas that got explained as some emergency "flaring" to avoid a potential disaster? Well, incidents like
SF News Seriously Though, San Francisco's Air Quality Is Currently Worse Than Beijing [Update] Look, we make a lot of jokes around here about the futility of winter Spare the Air days and how you shouldn't burn wood and whatnot, but this morning we'
SF News It's The Fifth Spare The Air Day In A Row. Hopefully You Can Still Breathe. It doesn't seem deadly out there, but the stillness in the air these past few December days means that the particulate matter isn't blowing around and it's
SF News That Burning Plastic Smell? Blame It On Redwood City If you awoke this morning, rubbed the sleep from your eyes and wondered to yourself why your usual Muni stop smells weird — but, like, in a different way than usual — then you can
