This is exactly what i've observed looking towards Puget Sound to the west traveling along Highway 9 route & I-5- From Snohomish county to Skagit county. Then you can see the horizon like that. several times we've driven up to visit in the afternoons and evenings. I don't know how it starts or what the mornings look like. But it ends up being layers of bright orange and that black stuff. The sun makes the orange look burning when it sets to the west. To the east are sheets of black smoke (they look as if they might rise from the ground ? ) and areas where there are lines of evenly spaced columns of smoke in the trees, that rise narrowly and form a haze above. How strange is that? It all culminates in a black out of stars and moon by evening. The days i've seen that rarely have been blue earlier, end up gray and solid by days end. As far as east, north and south it's grayed and blacked out. The trees look sickly btw, not much looks green for this time of year... it seems that they're hammered pretty regularly.