You are absolutely right. We very much need this wet cold weather. The smoke in the air here is horrible from all the fires we have going on. Very unhealthy.
We dropped our daughter off to school in Missoula - they have two large fires nearby and the smoke just hangs in the valley. I thought she was going to have to endure until October - so hopefully this will help. She did say just the other day that it has been cooler, and the smoke not so bad. I know just having the lower temperatures helps a lot in getting the fires to slow.
All of our trips in the last 20+ years across the west during the summer its the same story though - smoky skies from all of the fires somewhere.