WEST SEATTLE SMOKE: Red sunset, night 3  and when it’ll clear out 16%

8/5/2026, 3:03:00 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 9 faulty reasoning types, including Pessimism Bias, Unattributed Quote, and Availability Heuristic, with Appeal to Authority as the most egregious example at 57.3% saturation with 55 hits. Analysis detected 255 faulty-reasoning hits from 96 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 25% and a BS Rank of 16% (24,179 of 28,475 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 84.90% of the article peer group.

Thanks to Joan (above) and Michael (below) for sending tonight's sunset photos, as smoke reddens the setting sun and its reflection on Puget Sound for a third night. 
The smoke and heat alerts continue through tomorrow, and then, the National Weather Service says tonight: "The thermal trough along the coast is expected to push inland tomorrow and east of the area late Thursday. 
Onshore flow should help improve smoke conditions as early as late Thursday along the coast and Friday for the interior." 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 1.3%Confirmation Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.8%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 29.2%West Seattle Blog: 2.4%Availability Heuristic29.2%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.1%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.5%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 5.6%Framing Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 2.0%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.8%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.2%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 20.8%West Seattle Blog: 2.1%Optimism Bias20.8%This article: 36.5%West Seattle Blog: 0.8%Pessimism Bias36.5%This article: 29.2%West Seattle Blog: 2.4%Negativity Bias29.2%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.3%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 13.5%West Seattle Blog: 2.0%Recency Bias13.5%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.4%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.1%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%Straw Man0.0%This article: 57.3%West Seattle Blog: 0.8%Appeal to Authority57.3%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 1.1%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.4%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 1.5%Appeal to Emotion0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.5%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 29.2%West Seattle Blog: 1.9%Anecdotal29.2%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.9%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 36.5%West Seattle Blog: 1.6%Unattributed Quote36.5%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.3%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 13.5%West Seattle Blog: 3.2%Biased Writer Voice13.5%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 2.2%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 1.2%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

96 words analyzed.

Speakers

1speaker57%attributed speech41writer words
100%flagged-word coverage
55 attributed words100% of attributed speech100% writer coverage
0%32.5%65.0%Unattributed Quote+63.6 ptsWriter: 0.0%National Weather Service: 63.6%63.6%Biased Writer Voice-31.7 ptsWriter: 31.7%National Weather Service: 0.0%0.0%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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Analysis

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