Sterling needs to read the discuassion from State College. Sterling says:
However, smoke from wildfires will likely continue to obscure the sky to some extent. Am not sure what effect this will have on temperatures. The HRRR (which does forecast smoke) does indicate highs could be a couple degrees cooler compared to some other models.
State College says:
Smoke can filter out shortwave radiation from the sun resulting in cooler days, but is not as effective in absorbing longwave radiation (the smoke particles are too small), so it has less impact on overnight low temps
As the smoke wanders the planet for about a week it causes global cooling. But don't tell Andrew from the Post about it. Don't want to interrupt his thought process.