Eastern Clallam County and parts of Jefferson County remained under an air-stagnation alert Monday, keeping Kenmore Air Express grounded even as ground fog lifted from parts of the region part of the time.
Voluntary woodstove burning and driving restrictions were urged by state health and air-quality officials in the hopes that pollutants can be kept to a minimum until air circulation resumes — possibly late Thursday.
Poor weather kept Kenmore from flying into William R. Fairchild International Airport, leaving the carrier without service between Port Angeles and Seattle’s Boeing Field since Saturday afternoon.
Kenmore is the only North Olympic Peninsula carrier with regularly scheduled service between Port Angeles and Seattle’s Boeing Field.
The airline normally schedules six round trips between Fairchild and Boeing fields daily.
At Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, arrivals and departures were virtually unaffected by the fog.
Delays, if any, were 15 minutes or less, an airport spokesperson said Monday night.
Despite sunbreaks in eastern Clallam and Jefferson counties that canceled a dense fog advisory Monday, thick mist returned in the Olympic foothills late Monday afternoon.
Foggy conditions are expected to continue along the Strait of Juan de Fuca coastline into the Puget Sound area through Thanksgiving, when more-normal rain and wind are expected to circulate the stagnate air, the National Weather Service forecast Monday night.
Spared from the inversion layer is the West End, which experienced the usual seasonal ground fog and mostly sunny skies again on Monday.
