The sun, which is usually reliable, slept in on Wednesday. That's the way it seemed throughout the Bay Area as the smoke from countless wildfires mixed with clouds and fog to tint the sky, and just about everything else, a dark burnt orange. Some folks said it felt like living on the next planet over, the red one. Others said it was like a solar eclipse, but longer, or the apocalypse, but less biblical. Some called the darkness a metaphor for life in the days of global warming, of the pandemic, of social unrest, of endless electioneering. Strange and foreboding it was. And how long it would last was, like the sky, unclear. For the first time ever, tomorrow's sunrise no longer seemed a sure thing. Ralph Borrmann, a spokesman for the Bay Area Air Quality Management District, said the unusual atmosphere could linger. "Not a lot of change is expected," Borrmann said. The sun did come up on Wednesday, meteorologists confirmed, but it kept largely to itself, on the other side of the thick blanket of smoke, fog, haze and muck. Meanwhile, headlights and porch lights stayed on all day. Flashlights came out at high noon. "Pretty much all… Read full this story
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