When I left my house this morning to go to work it looked very foggy outside. Only thing is it wasn't fog, it was smoke from the wildfires in South Georgia. Not only was visibility really bad, the smell of burning was very strong.

My drive to work was the same, very smokey and very smelly.

Now that I am at work, several of my coworkers have noted that their throats hurt and their eyes sting.

What am I going to do about this?

I am going to stay inside and limit my outdoor activities.

I have an air purifier running by my desk.

I most likely will not use a mask, but I have one if I experience any respiratory symptoms.

This has to be really bad for asthma sufferers.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports the smoke concentrations are nearly twice as high today as they were when the smoke from South Georgia blew into Atlanta last week.

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_Georgia's Environmental Protection Division (EPD)has been measuring high levels of soot in the air around Atlanta as well as Athens and Augusta.

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_Even though the smoke is coming from wildfires 250 miles away, it is reducing visibility at Atlant's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport.

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_The National Weather Service says winds pushed the smoke over metro Atlanta, and a low-level inversion – where a layer of warmer air was on top of cooler air at the surface – pushed the smoke to ground-level. Warming temperatures should help dissipate the smoke.

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_Until then, the EPD recommends that even healthy Atlantans should limit outdoor activity.

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_’Those that have some pre-existing conditions like asthma or heart conditions, we recommend they stay inside and have their air conditioning running on recirculate, if possible, so they are not pulling in a lot of fresh air,’ says Susan Zimmer-Dauphinee of the EPD.

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_According to the Georgia Forestry Commission, 52 fires that were burning late Monday have scorched more than 345,000 acres in South Georgia.