I'm on the west side of LA (about 1 mile from the beach). We mostly have a marine layer/haze here. Air temperature is nice (68 degrees currently at 2:00 p.m.). I don't smell any smoke or see any ash on the cars, but the lighting outside is kind definitely unusual, like the "magic hour" after the sun goes down in the summer. The sky is gray though, not orange. I rode 25 miles yesterday evening - including up in the hills (up to about 1200') -- and the air quality was totally. I feel bad for most of the rest of the west coast. We've had smoke and ash here before, and it is so depressing. So far, so good over here (knock on wood), but I'm sticking close to the coast for a while.