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Apocalyptic Orange Skies Loom over California
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Apocalyptic Orange Skies Loom over California

Wildfires have been raging across much of California and now the skies have turned a murky orange color, trapping cities in what looks like an apocalyptic setting.

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Many Californians awoke to a bright orange sky on Wednesday morning. The worst-affected areas were San Francisco, Berkeley, and Oakland, per CNN reports

The looming and heavy skies are due to wildfires that have been raging throughout the year in California, which have led smoke to rise up into the atmosphere, murking out the area's air quality.

Sunlight couldn't even break through the heavy orange hues, and with winds blowing the smoke further afield, it doesn't look to be lifting soon.

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"We just have so much smoke over us right now," said a post on Twitter from the Bay Area’s National Weather Service. "This is beyond the scope of our models so we rely on your reports!... The models do not seem to be keeping up with the thick layer of smoke as far as temperature forecast data, visibility."

Furthermore, the weather service mentioned that as winds slow down, gravity will pull the smoke down — which will make the smog worse.