A familiar look has returned to the skies over North Central Washington as summer winds down.

After a weekend that saw a diaphanous veil of widespread haze over the region, the blue canvas that would ordinarily be present during the sunny days of early September has been exchanged for a thick gauze of grayish-white smoke above communities in the Wenatchee, Upper Wenatchee, and Entiat Valleys.

The obvious presence of smoke in the lower atmosphere has also been accompanied by reports of fine ash and soot falling from the skies over North Central Washington, as well as evidence of its piling up on the hoods and windshields of cars and other stationary objects around the region.

The tangle of blight is being blamed largely on the Lower Sugarloaf Fire, which is burning on the Wenatchee River

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