Fins,
I was going to send you a photo until I saw your email address isn't in your profile.

Two days ago I was going out for a few minutes and I took a photo of the sun. The sky was gray and the sun was a yellow-orange color. It was 6:15 PM. I'm in the Los Angeles area.

When I got back from the errand some fifteen minutes later, the sky was the same grayish color but there was not even a tiny hint that I was looking directly at the sun. The smoke was that thick.


EDIT: NASA Smoke Model of Pacific NW fires [Link: i.imgur.com]