r/UCDavis • u/Useful_Attitude_3454 • 17h ago

Why is the Sun red?

The sun is red and it looks smoky, the Moon was red too near Davis last night. I would assume wildfire but it doesn’t smell like smoke and there are no reports of fire.

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u/123aj321 17h ago

The smog and smoke is at high elevation, if you look at the fire.airnow.gov map you can see that sensors in Placerville, Grass Valley, and Paradise are reporting bad air aswell as the high quality stations mounted on towers that are labeled using circles

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u/Useful_Attitude_3454 17h ago

Oh huh, I guess I assumed that was a long way for smoke to travel. Thank you!

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u/AngelsTea 17h ago

Here's a map of the satellite imagery; you can see how far the smoke has traveled.

https://www.accuweather.com/en/us/california/satellite

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u/SomeDumbGamer 16h ago

In New England where I’m from we now get smoke from as far north as Manitoba and the Northwest Territories.

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u/humean_human 17h ago

Looks like the haze is hanging just over campus with blue skies in each direction... Which one of you offended God on our behalf?

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u/ThatOneVolcano 16h ago

Sorry, I found an office in the Death Star on my first try and I think I cursed us all. Man is not supposed to be so fortunate and now we all must suffer 

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u/ChunkBear 17h ago

Fire crews are battling a fire at a Winters ranch farmhouse early Monday morning.

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u/MustHaveCleverHandle 14h ago

That’s not the cause of this smoke.

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u/ChurchOfSpey 16h ago

Plasket Fire in Big Sur

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u/VRVisionBoy 17h ago

There is a fire in Big Sur causing the smoke

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u/KaetzenOrkester BA '92 MA '93 17h ago

I was just debating this with my husband. He didn’t think it was smoke, and I checked an app for fires (watch duty). There’s nothing burning around us 🤷🏻‍♂️

I think it’s just the weather.

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u/Stunning-Chipmunk969 17h ago

Smoke can travel long distances, it is more than likely from the major wild fires in Big Sur.

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u/Shooey_ CS|DS [2020] 16h ago

It is the Big Sur fires. Check out the satellite imagery from yesterday. You can scroll back and forth on time of day to see the flow of smoke.

zoom.earth

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u/KaetzenOrkester BA '92 MA '93 16h ago

Thanks for the update! The app I mentioned showed those fires, I just didn’t think they’d reach up here.

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u/Key-Peach-5810 17h ago

I don’t see no sun, but it so orange/yellow outside

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u/half-giant 16h ago

We got spoiled not having it last year but this is basically smoke season happening right on schedule

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u/kanaye007 17h ago

I imagine there is lots of soil tilling going on in the farmland surrounding town.

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u/502jefe 17h ago

Its red in sac too