Would you believe the air is filled with smoke from burning leaves? This is to be expected in the most polluted city in the world. What would be abnormal is if the air wasn't smoky on such a nice Fall day.
12:50 PM: Light leaf smoke. Somebody upwind is burning leaves. I do not know who is doing it. I see no smoke from here. I smelled the smoke coming in the window. I shut the few open windows around the house. 64 degrees at this time measured at North High School.
1:20 PM: Faint leaf smoke continues.
1:30 PM: No smoke of any kind at this time. Has the burning ceased or a change in wind direction?
2:25 PM: Faint leaf smoke at this time. Mostly cloudy. Dark rain clouds are to the northwest.
3:15 PM: Faint leaf smoke.
3:50 PM: Light to moderate leaf smoke. Yard waste smoke does not often get this heavy. The burner cannot be far.
4:45 PM: Light to moderate leaf smoke.
5:00 PM: Very faint leaf smoke.
5:45 PM: No smoke of any kind at this time. I expect heavy wood smoke tonight. 62 degrees.
5:55 PM: Very faint smoke of some kind on the breeze. I cannot say what type of smoke it is.
6:37 PM: No smoke of any kind.
7:30 PM: Light wood smoke.
8:45 PM: Faint wood smoke.
9:45 PM: Very faint trace of some type of smoke.
Midnight: Very faint trace of some type of smoke continues.