I lived in Wenatchee for high school, smoke season is new for Western Washington but not for Eastern. There we always a couple of red days every year, the sky and sun red with smoke. All through the valleys up highway two from Wenatchee to lake Wenatchee

The smoke may have been particularly bad but the fire season was very mild in comparison to previous years, it's just that the fires we have had have been either closer to inhabited areas or in places where the smoke traveled more easily