Red Sun Skies

This stunning photo, shot this morning in Hansville, Washington, and posted to Facebook by KOMO News, is courtesy of Greg with Skunk Bay Weather. Our recent red sunrises and sunsets are apparently on account of wildfires. Though stepping out of the house this morning, the air smelled funny, and not like smoke. Almost chemically. It was a bit more than subtle and yet hard to describe.

Just before midday the skies became really dark, and then opened up to a furious downpour with grumbles of thunder and flashes of lightening. It's really some of my favorite weather.

Taking my show in the road for a lunch meeting with a new prospective business partner, I would have expected the downpour to have washed the skies and my car. Even after the storm has passed, the sunlight through the still hazy skies looks like the reflection off a shiny copper penny. My car looks like it was rinsed with really hard, mineral-heavy water which left it completely covered in gray water spots.

Even after the rain, the strange odor in the air remains along with the mystery ...