Ash ... and now the humidity

This from the morning paper: "Shifting winds Friday brought the Coachella Valley relief from the smell of smoke, but residents couldn’t escape the Salton Sea. Winds from the southeast blew the all-too-familiar Salton Sea stink people have gotten used to during summer over the valley’s cities. The winds also brought moisture, which caused humidity levels to spike. “We have a monsoon surge starting today,” Stephen Harrison, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in San Diego, said Friday. “It could last through the weekend.” Miss Penny Lane says: She'll been enjoying the confines inside her lovely Palermo pad today.