San Jose is yellow right now — not from the weird yellow streetlights we have, but from smoke. Yet another wildfire, this time in Monterey county, is putting out plumes of smoke that are covering our skies. I went outside to take pics — it’s bizarre out there.
At first I thought it was from the Martin fire, in the mountains to the southwest of here, but:
A dark cloud that drifted across the Silicon Valley on Friday evening alarmed some residents, who peppered local and county fire and police agencies with phone calls.
The cloud was smoke from the Indians Fire in the Ventana Wilderness of the Los Padres National Forest, said Steve Anderson, forecaster with the National Weather Service in Monterey.
“It’s showing up very well on our satellite images,” Anderson said. According to the CalFire web page, the Monterey County fire was 23,575 acres late Friday.
He said forecasters did not see any smoke from the Martin Fire in Bonny Doon on satellite photos.
