Big Red Sun

Two hours before sunset, which was at 8:21 tonight, the sun was a brilliant orange in color.  It was still 20 degrees above the horizon.  It usually doesn't turn orange in the summer until it is much closer to the horizon.  Remember my post from July 6, with the sun going down over the buildings across the sound?  Well, something was up.  But what?  You have been reading about the fires on the west coast?  Believe it or not, the smoke from those fires, which have been really severe, has reached the east coast!  And all those particles of smoke in the atmosphere are what reduce the light from the Sun and also the particles cause the blue rays from the sun to scatter, and so only the longer wavelength waves which are red, manage to make it through the atmosphere to our eyes, and to my camera!