RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) — Hazy skies were covering parts of North Carolina throughout Monday as wildfire smoke moved into the state.
The smoke is drifting down from wildfires in Canada and other fires in the western United States, according to CBS 17 meteorologist Wes Hohenstein.
The smoky haze is expected in central North Carolina again on Tuesday.
Images from NASA satellites showed a layer of the smoke in the upper atmosphere.
A clear line of smoke was over Raleigh cutting east to the coast at Corolla on the Outer Banks in Currituck County, according to the NASA images.
The smoke was also visible over areas west of Raleigh and well into Virginia.
“That’s what made it seem Carolina Grey instead of Carolina Blue and some of that haze could be back tomorrow,” Hohenstein said.
A California blaze — that already burned 37 square miles — threatened thousands of home and commercial structures as it burned Monday along the edge of the San Bernardino National Forest, about 65 miles east of Los Angeles.