Smoky skies over much of US from Canada wildfires reminiscent of orange skies that covered Sonoma County in 2020

Three years ago, Sonoma County residents marveled at eerie yellow-to-orange shades in the sky from dozens of wildfires that burned hundreds of miles away.|
CHARLES SWANSON
THE PRESS DEMOCRAT

Smoke from Canada wildfires has been moving across the U.S. in the last month, causing millions of Midwest, East Coast and Canada residents to live under hazy skies and prompting air quality alerts from the Midwest to New England.

While California has not seen the dramatic aerial effects of these fires, the fallout is reminiscent of the day the sky turned orange in the Bay Area in September 2020, when dozens of wildfires in the state led to “unprecedented” conditions.

Click through the gallery above to see images from the 2020 wildfire-scorched skies in Sonoma County and the rest of the Bay Area.

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