"Fog" vs bushfire smoke haze

[Smanfy]

In Victoria & we got a few bushfires already going.

In HA using your BoM source it shows as “fog” instead of “haze/smoke” from bushfires being so bad the forecast even mentions the smoke/haze. Is this something I can somehow differentiate in my dashboard? Or does BoM itself report is as fog for the icon to be the same or something?

[systemtester]

It looks like it has been mapped to fog in this file.

bureau_of_meteorology/custom_components/bureau_of_meteorology/const.py

Line 47 in 279104d

"haze": "fog",

[Makin-Things]

The HA weather build block integration only supports a ver limited number of conditions, see https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/weather/
We asked for this list to be expanded to include things relevant to our local weather (ie. smoke/hazy was asked to be included back in 2020 when half of Australia was on fire), but the HA devs refused outright to even consider adding any more options.
So basically there is nothing we can do.
In my opinions the whole understanding of weather by the HA devs is somewhat retarded, but they refuse to listen to others opinions on how to improve things.

[systemtester]

I do see that now and it is limiting. Maybe a change of this weather type to the exceptional attribute would be a slightly better descriptor here.