The last few days I noticed ashy black crud accumulating in Banjo's water bowl. It took a little while to figure out, but with smoke from 2 wildfires being pumped into the Bay Area by somewhat unusual weather patterns, we're certain that was the cause.
The first (and smaller) fire is just south of San Jose in Henry Coe St. Park, and is likely the cause of the heavier particulates in the air that we are finding in water bowls, etc. Here's a map showing where it is, in relation to some places you may or may not know about.
The other fire is the Moonlight Woodland Fire 200 miles north of us in the mountains, but it's pretty big. Because we have a high pressure system over the Bay Area, the normal eastern flow of air (that keeps the Bay Area's air clean and usually clear) is reversed and the smoke from that fire is getting sucked down the central valley and out over the Bay Area, as you can see in this satellite photo:
The smokey haze in the air is pretty eerie, casting a subtly dark shadow over what would otherwise be a bright sunny day. It did, however, make for quite a spectacular sunrise this morning. I doubt this picture really captures it well, but here's what it looked like from outside our house:
There is an article about the fires here.
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