The CDC recommends avoiding exposure to smoke by staying indoors in areas in California, Oregon, and Washington
The NWS Baltimore-Washington office explained in a tweet that the smoke from the wildfires in the west was being “carried by the jet stream across the Mid-Atlantic, causing a ‘hazy’ sky”. The concentration is between 15,000 to 25,000 feet in the sky, which explains why residents on the East Coast were not smelling smoke.
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