Expect hazy, smoky skies in parts of the Puget Sound region Tuesday and Wednesday.

Anna Lindeman, a National Weather Service Meteorologist in Seattle, believes it’s due to a change in the wind direction.

“Air is coming from the eastern Cascades, where we currently have several large, ongoing fires,” Lindeman said.

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Those east-to-west winds are blowing smoke in from the Lower Sugarloaf Fire, which is burning on nearly 30,000 acres about 25 miles northeast of Leavenworth, and t

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