Bay Area residents awoke to a strange new world on Wednesday. Due to nearby wildfires, a tragic trend that California has dealt with at historic levels the last few years, the entire region was covered in a layer of smoke so thick that it combined with the marine fog to block out the sun entirely. The whole sky turned an eerie yellow-orange color, with temperatures dozens of degrees below where they would have been otherwise.
The whole scene was surreal enough to make you wonder for a moment if you’d even woken up yet, or were still in bed having a weird dream.