Happy Friday! We still have smoke and haze across the area, but air quality is much better than 24 hours ago and will continue to get better. Onshore wind is still light, but it continues to push surface level smoke and haze out of the area. We also have some low marine clouds to start the day, mostly around Shelton south and west. The low clouds will clear and we’ll see hazy sunshine to start the day with improving air quality all day. We should notice a big difference later today and tonight with still hot temps in the mid to upper-80s. The haze will linger the longest in the Foothills, especially east King County.
East of the Cascades, Red Flag Warnings are out for Friday and Saturday and each afternoon and evening, westerly winds of 20-40mph will fan flames. There won’t be much improvement into next week, with gusty afternoon and evening winds and low relative humidity (though perhaps not as critical as Friday and Saturday.)
This weekend will be nice with morning clouds tomorrow and then afternoon sun. Sunday will have more clouds overall, but both days will still be in the upper-70s and lower-80s.
Next week will be dry in Western Washington with highs just a little warmer than average — about 80° in Seattle. Smoke likely stays away from Western Washington through the middle of next week, but we could see some return beyond.
No rain is in sight.
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