Fire that had burned for many weeks, in the remote Olympic Peninsula wilderness, filled a cool and stable boundary layer with dense smoke that spread across much of the national park on this quiet Sunday morning. Meanwhile, from a promontory 5,000 feet above sea level, and about a thousand above the smoke, we could see the solution soon to arrive: rain from the Pacific, mostly just beyond this wavy deck of “warm advection” altostratus, and ahead of an upper-level trough. Indeed, light rain began mere minutes after this shot. Smoke in the rain in the mountains: that’s an uncommon experience!
11 SSW Port Angeles WA (28 Aug 16) Looking SW
47.9805, -123.4798Cloud, Mountain and Smoke Sandwich
Fire that had burned for many weeks, in the remote Olympic Peninsula wilderness, filled a cool and stable boundary layer with dense smoke that spread across much of the national park on this quiet Sunday morning. Meanwhile, from a promontory 5,000 feet above sea level, and about a thousand above the smoke, we could see the solution soon to arrive: rain from the Pacific, mostly just beyond this wavy deck of “warm advection” altostratus, and ahead of an upper-level trough. Indeed, light rain began mere minutes after this shot. Smoke in the rain in the mountains: that’s an uncommon experience!
11 SSW Port Angeles WA (28 Aug 16) Looking SW
47.9805, -123.4798