Incredible to see such a thick layer of smoke almost all day today. There were times this afternoon that visibility was down to .5 miles. Observations at RDU since 3:51 am Thursday have had smoke in them. It was remarkable going on to the roof of Jordan Hall to look at the smoke ( And smell it :/) and barely see the bell tower and most of centennial campus. I was not even able to make out downtown Raleigh which is very close to campus. We are currently under a Dense Smoke Advisory through 11am Friday for the smoke and visibilities down to .5 to .25 miles possible at times. Its hard to pick out when this will occur as it appears that some areas have seen improvement but with a nocturnal inversion and continued easterly wind flow I suspect there will still be smoke moving in. Tomorrow afternoon winds should begin to become more southeasterly and help start to move it more northeast instead of west. Air quality will still be a huge issue tomorrow so you are sensitive to pollutants and have allergies/asthma do not exert yourself outdoors. Instead of me blabbing on I am going to post a bunch of images and pictures of this smoky June 12. Click images for full size!
Image courtesy of NASA AQUA MODIS. Just in case your not sure what this is showing, it is a satellite overpass that captured the smoke trail from the wildfire near Manteo to central NC.
Images courtesy WRAL.
Images taken on top of Jordan Hall at 1:30 pm.
Images courtesy of Dr. Sandra Yuter; North Carolina State University. The first image was taken at 8:42am and the second image was taken at 2:00pm from a webcam. Very cool seeing how visibility decreased tremendously throughout the day. Images looking towards Centennial Campus
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