When Cliff Mass flew in from New York last week, he couldn't believe how hazy the Seattle sky looked. "As I descended down into Sea-Tac, I said, 'What the hell is going on here?' " he said. The unlikely culprit: Smoke from dozens of wildfires burning in Siberia, which has climbed into the jet stream in recent weeks and found its way to the Pacific Northwest. Mass, a professor of atmospheric sciences at the University of Washington, said the smoke - which is not a health risk - also may be the reason behind the recent series of spectacular sunsets. The smoke's...
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