LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – Lake County's summer sky was clouded on Tuesday due to smoke from a fire located to the south.
“The smoke we are seeing appears to be from the Soberanes fire in Monterey County,” said Lake County Air Pollution Control Officer Doug Gearhart.
A satellite image from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, posted above, shows the smoke from the fire pushing to the northeast, over the Sacramento Valley.
“The smoke is circling up into the Sacramento Valley and pushing our way,” Gearhart said.
The Soberanes fire broke out on July 22. As of Tuesday afternoon, the fire was reported to have burned 19,311 acres, with 10-percent containment, according to Cal Fire.
Satellite images also showed the Sand fire in Santa Clarita in Southern California sending out large amounts of smoke that was traveling to the east, not the north.
In past years fires as far away as Montana and Idaho also have sent smoke into Lake County's air basin, as Lake County News has reported.
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