FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Wind and heat are working in our favor as the wildfire smoke across Southern California continues to rise and push east.

"The heat is going to help us, it's gonna lift the smoke. But the current Gifford fire by Santa Barbara, has been washing out towards the ocean and getting picked up on a current over Nevada, and that has been happening quite a bit," explains Heather Heinks, with the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District.

The San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District says although the haze is high enough in the atmosphere to not have severe impacts on the ground level weather patterns may shift at any given time.

"We encourage you to get a purifier, change it every 6 months or more often if you live in the area that has had a lot of smoke

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