Monday, June 27, 2011

Fires and Smoke in New Mexico

Dawn

With so many fires starting with the Wallow fire in eastern Arizona, our state has been in the path for a lot of smoke [picture above is what sunrise looks like]. Now there are some serious fires right over the Sangre de Cristo mountains in New Mexico, north of Santa Fe in Los Alamos.

The Los Alamos fire is a new one as of this weekend. It is a national emergency due to the work of the Los Alamos lab there.

The smoke gives the land a strange color and the sun turns red.

Thick smoke is quite a filter


Strange light and a red sun color the land below in eerie light






Yesterday at 3PM while out in the garden the smoke was mixing with the regular clouds [bottom picture]. Made for very strange looking cloud cover.

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