How smoke from California wildfires made it to DC area

Smoke from at least three California wildfires is blowing through the mid-Atlantic region, but lingering haze and scents likely won’t stick around for much longer. “It’s typically not something you see quite often around here,” said Brandon Fling, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service. The jet stream, or strong upper level winds, steered the smoke to the mid-Atlantic region, some 3,000 miles away from its origin, Fling said. “It was responsible for taking that smoke along the West Coast and pushing up over Canada, and it was able to actually come down from the north because we had a low-pressure trough off the Eastern Seaboard. That kind of helped steer the smoke down and across the mid-Atlantic here in the D.C. area,” he said...MORE 

Where there is smoke there is ... Well, not in this case, although someone does need to build a fire under Congress to address the land management issues that are the underlying cause of these large, hot fires that are blanketing and blackening the West.