It’s bad news again, and this time, it’s an environmental catastrophe on the west side of the world!

On September 9, the sky over the Bay Area looked apocalyptic after the on-going massive wildfire in this part of the US.

Wildfires have already burned a record 2.3 million acres across California this year. Strong winds have triggered the fire over the weekend and made the situation worse.

In an article published by The Verge, the local air quality agency explained that the orange color of the San Francisco sky was caused by smoke high in the atmosphere.

“The orange skies this morning are a result of wildfire smoke in the air. Strong winds over the past few days transported ash from fires in northern California and the Sierra Nevada into the region,” the agency wrote in a tweet.

Roger Gass, a meteorologist with The National Weather Service (NWS) told The Verge that the smoke was so thick it messed up weather forecasts. It didn’t account for how much the smoke would block out sunlight.

Wildfires are spreading across California, Washington, and Oregon at an astonishing rate.

In a report by The New York times, it is said that most of the fires in California are caused by people called “The El Dorado Fire”, which has grown to more than 10,000 acres, was ignited when a family used a “pyrotechnic device” to announce the gender of a new baby.

Many others are caused by more mundane human actions, like driving a car that sends soot into dry vegetation, as was the case with the Apple Fire in Southern California this year.

Whereas, others were due to power transmission lines or other utility equipment, which spark and ignite fires in remote areas. Pacific Gas and Electric equipment caused the deadly Camp Fire in 2018.

While In Oregon according to the Statesman Journal report, fires in the Santiam Canyon area were ignited when falling trees knocked down power lines.

May this tragic incident will end soon!

(Banner photos courtesy Verge video director Vjeran Pavic and AP Photo/Eric Risberg)