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Wildfire smoke 250 miles away!
I can hardly breathe today, and I have my doors and windows all closed and towels stuffed into cracks under a couple doors. We're getting heavy smoke in Atlanta from the Okeefenokee wildfires. Depending on winds my guess is that folks who'll be vacationing in HHI and other areas could get smoke this coming holiday weekend. I sure hope we don't get another round of it here 'cause I'm really looking forward to the Jazz Festival. 
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Smoke from wildfires covers Atlanta
By MIKE MORRIS
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 05/22/07
For the second time in less than a week, smoke from the South Georgia wildfires Tuesday morning was blowing into metro Atlanta.
The smoke, from fires about 250 miles away, began moving into metro Atlanta between 4 and 5 a.m., reducing visibility at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport from 10 miles at 4 a.m. to just 3 miles an hour later.
By 5:30 a.m., the smoke had moved northward to around the top-end Perimeter.
Forecasters at the National Weather Service said southeasterly winds sent the smoke over metro Atlanta, and a low-level inversion —where a layer of warmer air was on top of cooler air at the surface — pushed the smoke to ground-level.
In downtown Atlanta, the heavy smoke obscured the tops of skyscrapers.
The Weather Service said warming temperatures after daybreak, along with a shift in winds, should help dissipate the smoke.
According to the Georgia Forestry Commission, 52 fires that were burning late Monday have scorched more than 345,000 acres.
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Smoke from wildfires covers Atlanta
By MIKE MORRIS
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 05/22/07
For the second time in less than a week, smoke from the South Georgia wildfires Tuesday morning was blowing into metro Atlanta.
The smoke, from fires about 250 miles away, began moving into metro Atlanta between 4 and 5 a.m., reducing visibility at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport from 10 miles at 4 a.m. to just 3 miles an hour later.
By 5:30 a.m., the smoke had moved northward to around the top-end Perimeter.
Forecasters at the National Weather Service said southeasterly winds sent the smoke over metro Atlanta, and a low-level inversion —where a layer of warmer air was on top of cooler air at the surface — pushed the smoke to ground-level.
In downtown Atlanta, the heavy smoke obscured the tops of skyscrapers.
The Weather Service said warming temperatures after daybreak, along with a shift in winds, should help dissipate the smoke.
According to the Georgia Forestry Commission, 52 fires that were burning late Monday have scorched more than 345,000 acres.
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