Wildfires in California have turned the sky into an apocalyptic red-orange over the last few days.
The San Francisco area has seen blood red skies as wildfires continue to rage through the reason, BBC News reports.
- 14,000 firefighters are battling 28 fires across the state.
- The wildfires have burned more than 2.5 million acres.
- At least eight people have died from the fires.
Catherine Geeslin, who lives near San Francisco, told the San Francisco Chronicle she couldn’t believe how scary the skies were.
- “It feels like the end of the world.”
- “It was alarming to see it’s still dark. And it will be strange to have lunch in the dark. But you still have to get on with your day.”
Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), said a dark plume of smoke has blocked out the sun.
- “Extremely dense & tall smoke plumes from numerous large wildfires, some of which have been generating nocturnal pyrocumulunimbus clouds (“fire thunderstorms”), are almost completely blocking out the sun across some portions of Northern California this morning.”
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Take a look at the photos of the orange sky below.
