hiyu smoke!
In the line of providing topically useful vocabulary to my readers…
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Above you can see ‘very smoky’ in Chinuk Wawa, as spelled by George Coombs Shaw (1909), page 60.
That’s háyú smúk in Grand Ronde style; haiyoo smok in BC teaching spelling.
Either way, it means literally ‘lots of smoke’.
Given the record-setting terrible air quality here in Spokane, Washington this weekend, which is probably not half the hell that much of Oregon and California are enduring, I suggest you combine this phrase with another piece of Jargon grammar: the uuuuuultra-long vowel, as in …
haaaayuuuu smuuuuk!!!!
In English I guess that’d be “Man oh man is it smooooky outside!”

After fire destroyed the town next to mine in the Oregon Cascades, I found out that I have not one, but two Tyee’s from my community fighting the fires. I thought it was kind of interesting.