The Day the San Francisco Sky Turned Orange | The New Yorker

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  • A convergence of wildfire smoke and fog cast an eerie tint over the Bay Area, leaving its residents feeling helpless to climate change.
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Komentáře • 121

  • @1996jacksparrow
    @1996jacksparrow Před 3 lety +45

    It’s terrifying yet oddly beautiful

    • @ot7stan207
      @ot7stan207 Před rokem +1

      it was not beautiful. it was the worst of the pandemic, as if what ELSE could go wrong.

  • @chelseysunshine
    @chelseysunshine Před 3 lety +42

    yeah, i remember waking up and seeing that deep orange sky. never have i ever seen anything like it…i was in south san francisco and i just couldn’t believe what i was seeing. there was a fire right behind our house on a large hill. for a southern girl who’s dealt with hurricanes, tornados, and now earthquakes…this was the scariest of them all.

  • @rickeymoose
    @rickeymoose Před 3 lety +45

    That was such a surreal experience. That's something you only see in movies. But, it was real.

    • @adipsous
      @adipsous Před 2 lety +1

      I live in Lower Nob Hill, looked out my window about 10 AM. Whoa! I thought it looked super cool, actually.

  • @RoseyMorearty
    @RoseyMorearty Před 3 lety +57

    Funny to see a video about something I experienced myself. Was a crazy day.

    • @SaddamHussain-mm7sv
      @SaddamHussain-mm7sv Před 3 lety

      Good it's beautiful scene

    • @angelamontgomery9007
      @angelamontgomery9007 Před 2 lety +5

      I’m in the East Bay, it was a bizarre day! The streetlights were on until noon, and the birds didn’t wake up til about the same time. The quietness was unnerving.

    • @mrnodaysoff2365
      @mrnodaysoff2365 Před 2 lety +4

      @@angelamontgomery9007 mannnn when the bay was quiet you know something was wrong cuz bro

    • @williammitchell1864
      @williammitchell1864 Před 2 lety

      How come the news stations aren't making this red sky a national headline?

    • @angelamontgomery9007
      @angelamontgomery9007 Před 2 lety +1

      @@williammitchell1864 It was on the news when it occurred in 2020. Trust me, it was discussed!

  • @monkeypawism
    @monkeypawism Před 3 lety +96

    This was one of the most depressing days of the pandemic.

  • @lucysweeney8347
    @lucysweeney8347 Před 3 lety +16

    Thank you for posting this video and excellent interview with Chris Field ,Climate Scientist ,Stanford and other people's pertinent comments.Very sobering and educational.

  • @Brainhoneywalker
    @Brainhoneywalker Před 3 lety +26

    Long Beach, CA (500 miles south) turned orange too. Ashes were EVERYWHERE and the air quality was terrible for days following.

    • @californiamade5608
      @californiamade5608 Před 3 lety +3

      That’s crazy but the air quality this day in San Francisco wasn’t terrible it was actually good according to the air quality index. And a natural San Francisco phenomenon (fog)

    • @BenTrades
      @BenTrades Před 3 lety +1

      400 miles wth lol

  • @Pentagram619
    @Pentagram619 Před rokem +1

    Second time I've ever seen this. First time was Cedar fires back in the day, when San Diego's skies were blood red. Waking up to this brought me back to being a little kid.

  • @awesomeaustenkitty
    @awesomeaustenkitty Před 2 lety +9

    Live in Oregon, and wow was this the most terrifying experience in my life, thank god our house didn’t burn down… (we’re in a new house now but yeah, was a very dark time with although a pretty looking sky, a terrifying story behind its colors…)

  • @kmcq692
    @kmcq692 Před rokem +3

    Most color photos were taken digitally and were color corrected by the phone camera. It really was RED. Terrifying. My cat walked outside, had a look, turned around and ran back inside.

  • @tastyneck
    @tastyneck Před 3 lety +13

    It was so dark I literally thought I slept through the whole day and woke up at night. I remember the time on the DVR said like 10 or 11 and I totally panicked thinking I slept all day until 10 or 11PM. The sunlight usually starts to get me up in the morning and obviously that didnt happen that day. Frankly, I was a little bit panicked and disoriented

  • @californiamade5608
    @californiamade5608 Před rokem +2

    Watching as NYC encounters this

  • @donlewis4375
    @donlewis4375 Před 2 lety +3

    Happened too in Seattle August 2020 into September was eerie especially with everything that was happening with CoVid and wildfires across the west coast

  • @RandomAhYoutubeUser
    @RandomAhYoutubeUser Před 5 měsíci +1

    I remember waking up at 5 am seeing the sky orange in the summer thought it was nothing, but here we are...

  • @savannahm.laurentian1286
    @savannahm.laurentian1286 Před 3 lety +8

    It was actually dark until about noon, when it turned orange.

  • @kelvinholifield762
    @kelvinholifield762 Před 3 lety +3

    I remember waking up to this!! Yikes!!!

  • @clarac4491
    @clarac4491 Před 3 lety +51

    Amazing but terrifying pictures. Maybe nature itself thought, we needed wake up call

    • @kasallahfikiri
      @kasallahfikiri Před 3 lety +6

      It was super scary!! Literally woke up an thought it was the middle of the night or something!!

    • @clarac4491
      @clarac4491 Před 3 lety +6

      @@kasallahfikiri I can't even begin to image what that was like. Still seems totally unreal to me here on the other side of the globe

    • @yousufyousuf9862
      @yousufyousuf9862 Před 3 lety

      Butiful eis

    • @yousufyousuf9862
      @yousufyousuf9862 Před 3 lety

      Thanks

    • @yousufyousuf9862
      @yousufyousuf9862 Před 3 lety

      Kasallah Fikiri thanks

  • @angelamontgomery9007
    @angelamontgomery9007 Před rokem +2

    That was one weird day.

  • @dacronic1646
    @dacronic1646 Před 11 měsíci

    I remember those days. I live in San Jose and we also had skies like this. A pandemic going full strength and then orange skies and fires all around us. Felt like the end of the world literally.

  • @bearbullcruising6427
    @bearbullcruising6427 Před 3 lety +3

    I remember that, I live in Richmond and it was like almost darkness all day it reminded me of a movie called night of the comet that if I recall had this tent of orange to it 740 till the end of the movie it was a weird day and the conditions were just right for an event of that nature and unfortunately it is quite possible that it will happen again

  • @frzferdinand72
    @frzferdinand72 Před 2 lety +2

    I remember not hearing a single bird when I woke up that day, the little bit of light coming in through the window was red like a Coke can. I remember trying to take a picture of it but my phone kept trying to color correct.

  • @garconworldwide8475
    @garconworldwide8475 Před 3 lety +3

    This should be in history book man this day was crazy

    • @toyajackson556
      @toyajackson556 Před 2 lety

      Unfortunately it will happen again.

    • @UI_Jon
      @UI_Jon Před rokem

      ​@@toyajackson556this reply aged well lol

  • @m3gAnac0nda
    @m3gAnac0nda Před 3 lety +9

    It's so beautiful! Lord take me, I'm ready !

  • @cookie7993
    @cookie7993 Před 3 lety +2

    Nature had fun with the temperature slider in Adobe Lightroom.

    • @FilmaticProductions
      @FilmaticProductions Před 3 lety +1

      Honestly, it made for some of the most incredible photography I've ever seen in my life

  • @carlosmacmartin4205
    @carlosmacmartin4205 Před 6 měsíci +1

    Unforgettable. Same day as my birthday. I was working in the Financial District. 😎

  • @SilverSpade_
    @SilverSpade_ Před 2 lety

    I remember waking up in Santa Rosa that morning, and the sky really was very dark. That was the craziest thing for me. It was barely more light out then than during the night. The red glow scared me out of my mind (maybe I've watched a bit too much science fiction). I now call that day "Mars Day" for the color of the sky and the heavily reduced level of sunlight.

  • @FrankDrankA_Skank
    @FrankDrankA_Skank Před 2 lety +1

    It literally looks like another planet

  • @suzanneperry5989
    @suzanneperry5989 Před 3 lety +4

    I wonder if tree planting has increased in California since that strange event. Is the population of the state working to replace all the trees that burn each year? Did the scare of Orange Day prompt new initiatives to get more trees in the ground?

    • @californiamade5608
      @californiamade5608 Před 3 lety +2

      Trees grow themselves. It’s a natural occurrence.

    • @OsirisIxchel
      @OsirisIxchel Před 3 lety

      The trees are burning faster than we can replace and grow them. Trees are burning all over the world... a whole island off the coast of Greece burned and in Athens it even got near the Parthenon. czcams.com/video/F4PcJKPECxk/video.html and omg.. Siberia.. czcams.com/video/pYe6QIBdTKs/video.html There are many others... and where there's not fires, it's unprecedented flooding. czcams.com/video/N7DNTzp1fJk/video.html

  • @jamielunes1841
    @jamielunes1841 Před 3 lety

    I live in San Francisco and I was on market street! I'm good!

  • @michaelveis6498
    @michaelveis6498 Před rokem

    Red Skies, like the song by the Fixx. (1982)

  • @marcocampos2332
    @marcocampos2332 Před rokem

    When I woke up I didn’t see cause I had class on zoom then I look and smoke was covering our backyard and I was shocked I thought there was fire next store but there wasn’t

  • @Treyvonstorytime
    @Treyvonstorytime Před rokem

    It also turned into a orange sky in south florida

  • @alphazero5841
    @alphazero5841 Před 3 lety +1

    Sozin’s Comet is near

  • @Xamsims
    @Xamsims Před 2 lety +1

    I had a dream like this.

  • @jessicafickle3550
    @jessicafickle3550 Před 3 lety +1

    Was there, seen it, almost fainted

  • @user-zw4wh1tm9x
    @user-zw4wh1tm9x Před 3 lety +2

    it's gonna be even worse this year, thanks everyone for watering your lawns and wasting what water we have left!

  • @rosewinter633
    @rosewinter633 Před 3 lety +3

    The nibiru system is here

  • @aprilsmith3683
    @aprilsmith3683 Před 3 lety +1

    Goodness gracious...it looks truly eerie...(a rather beautiful shade of orange though)...odd...🇿🇦

  • @jalo8619
    @jalo8619 Před 3 lety +2

    Aye why did you privatize the elephant video, I was watching that!

  • @electraheart7745
    @electraheart7745 Před 3 lety

    I remember this all too well it looked so ugly and I stayed outside for a minute and noticed how much ash was on everything outside.

  • @rBox.
    @rBox. Před 2 měsíci +1

    HERSESY///ACT II CRECENDO
    CRY FOR THE WEEPER

  • @osmanjeffrey
    @osmanjeffrey Před 3 lety +1

    Funny how it happened on California's Admission Day (to the Union).

  • @salimraihan9935
    @salimraihan9935 Před 3 lety +1

    that's when cj come

  • @D.Haunts
    @D.Haunts Před rokem

    Ngl I hope this opens again.

  • @cacho2079
    @cacho2079 Před 3 lety +2

    looks like a episode of breaking bad.

  • @caliman99
    @caliman99 Před rokem

    This day was unbelievable, unprecedented, surreal and apocalyptic enough without trying to tie a weather event to climate change. Everything isn't climate change. Do your homework, reporters.

  • @ethanhunterrivera6752
    @ethanhunterrivera6752 Před 3 lety

    Here today at philipines is orange sky too

  • @Upflickk
    @Upflickk Před 2 lety

    Sorry but, keep it up ima gather some money to get to SF and hill bomb those skies🤟🏽💯

  • @999tj6
    @999tj6 Před rokem

    09/09, my birthday. ☺️✌🏼

  • @svarupa
    @svarupa Před 3 lety

    that was a while back. the streets are getting crowded again. people are coming out.

  • @f0Iks
    @f0Iks Před 2 lety

    it was legit orange in san antono texas at 7am rn i should of record it

  • @jamaldavis2450
    @jamaldavis2450 Před rokem

    beautiful skies😊❤

  • @Jugnaut
    @Jugnaut Před 2 lety +2

    This Looks like Morioh Cho

  • @charleskim1540
    @charleskim1540 Před 2 lety +1

    Like blade runner.

  • @christinesey3902
    @christinesey3902 Před 2 lety

    Reminds me of GTA SA ps2 version

  • @ricroblox7820
    @ricroblox7820 Před 2 lety

    the sky was orange for me and im not in san Francisco

  • @blanknblank1
    @blanknblank1 Před 3 lety +1

    IT WAS A SUPER COOL, ONE IN A LIFE TIME DAY. Yes we know possible climate change blah blah but can we just enjoy it instead of being moaning?

  • @aksitatar9184
    @aksitatar9184 Před 3 lety +5

    Flying cars & replicants...

  • @guyinthewhiteT
    @guyinthewhiteT Před 3 dny

    Nah this and the pandemic on top of it made it feel like the end of the world.

  • @lostastronaut3632
    @lostastronaut3632 Před 3 lety +5

  • @jakr3597
    @jakr3597 Před 2 lety

    one i had pink sky

  • @munadiamajiet5281
    @munadiamajiet5281 Před rokem

    H p lovecraft vibes.

  • @melissaanderson821
    @melissaanderson821 Před rokem

    wow its mars lol

  • @gonkdroidgaming6984
    @gonkdroidgaming6984 Před rokem

    2:42 Batman the animated series

  • @trixie9867
    @trixie9867 Před 10 měsíci

    i scare

  • @EduardoReyes-uz2lt
    @EduardoReyes-uz2lt Před 2 lety

    This didnt happened where I lived

  • @Volkogriz
    @Volkogriz Před rokem +1

    Blade runner

  • @DCSHADY613
    @DCSHADY613 Před 2 lety

    The dayyyyy the wholeeee worldddd wentttt awayyyyy

  • @yigitxoz
    @yigitxoz Před 2 lety

    Like San andreas ps2

  • @devikaad5847
    @devikaad5847 Před rokem

    What is happening in america
    Red sky then zombie drugs?

  • @katherinem.4414
    @katherinem.4414 Před 2 lety

    The scriptures say there will be wonders in the sky, but why just here and in China is this?? I have a theory.

  • @grimheathen
    @grimheathen Před 3 lety

    Bad land management.

    • @californiamade5608
      @californiamade5608 Před 3 lety

      No. Just Mother Nature. 🌬

    • @grimheathen
      @grimheathen Před 3 lety

      @@californiamade5608 even the native tribes would burn off the underbrush. Controlled burns used to be common to prevent giant out of control fires. Fire is nature.

    • @californiamade5608
      @californiamade5608 Před 3 lety

      @@grimheathen that’s great for them. Now Mother Nature is doing it

  • @age_of_reason
    @age_of_reason Před rokem

    You need a better name than "climate change". Climates change. That is a law of nature. It's not an encouraging name.

  • @trenapier206
    @trenapier206 Před rokem

    The city that deserved it the most...

  • @kennethsalter9998
    @kennethsalter9998 Před 3 lety

    This is far 2 systematic ....

  • @Mt6xyz777
    @Mt6xyz777 Před 3 lety

    Veks is mark of t beast

  • @michaelveis8937
    @michaelveis8937 Před rokem

    Red Skies, like the song by the Fixx. (1982)