I think you have to compare now to when the Mt. St. Helens eruption occurred in 1980 to make any sense of what is happening here now on the West Coast. Where I live obviously the temperatures are about 10 to 20 degrees colder than normal mostly because no sun is hitting the earth because of smoke throughout most of the state. Santa Barbara is 70 degrees right now but likely should be 80 or 90 degrees this time of year too.
But, when no sun is hitting the ground the ground and ocean cannot warm up because there is no sun hitting it. So, in some ways it is more like winter on the coast more than anything else with the smoke and cloud cover here.
Where I live the one good thing about all this is the colder temperatures are bringing moisture off the ocean so if I go out on my deck it is still wet from the moisture coming off the ocean. in other words the deck looks like it rained and I'm sure all the plants and trees are enjoying this too of having wetness during the night and into the morning every morning which also likely is preventing fires along the northern coast a lot too if you are near enough to the ocean.
Also, we might get (on days when there is less smoke than now) get amazing orange or brown sunsets. But, there haven't been any sunsets recently because of constant smoke for about 1 month now at least in this area. So, there are no sunrises or sunsets mostly at all in California or Oregon now. And sometimes when it is day you think it is night because it can get so dark from the smoke.
Oh, by the way, I missed this until today, Tuolumne Meadows area has two fires up there too. I never have heard of even once in my life of Tuolumne Meadows in Yosemite national park being on fire simply because it is around 7000 feet and fires are very unlikely up that high.
The easiest way to trace the fires and smoke by the way I have found is zoom.earth if you click the fire button.
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