San Juans- Air Quality
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- Bombay2Boulder
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San Juans- Air Quality
Air quality is pretty poor in the San Juans right now- SIlverton, Telluride, Ouray area due to fires in New Mexico, AZ. You can feel it while breathing in town. In case anyone is planning on being there. The counties are also updating their facebook pages about this.
You can check the area in the map below-
https://fire.airnow.gov/
You can check the area in the map below-
https://fire.airnow.gov/
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Re: San Juans- Air Quality
Good to know. Thanks for sharing thisBombay2Boulder wrote: ↑Tue Jun 08, 2021 11:15 am Air quality is pretty poor in the San Juans right now- SIlverton, Telluride, Ouray area due to fires in New Mexico, AZ. You can feel it while breathing in town. In case anyone is planning on being there. The counties are also updating their facebook pages about this.
You can check the area in the map below-
https://fire.airnow.gov/
Re: San Juans- Air Quality
I noticed that this morning, I was wondering where it was from
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Re: San Juans- Air Quality
There is also a small fire on Cottonwood Pass between Gypsum and Basalt, Cottonwood Pass is currently closed. It was still under an acre at lunch time, so hopefully they get it out quickly. We are expected to have some wind later today. Its getting pretty hazy in Avon right now (but that is mainly from the same NM/AZ fires not this little one).
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Re: San Juans- Air Quality
Sawatch Range looks absolutely horrible right now— peaks are all faded out by smoky skies
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Re: San Juans- Air Quality
Looks like this little one is out, and the road is now reopened. https://www.vaildaily.com/news/glenwood ... pass-fire/Chicago Transplant wrote: ↑Tue Jun 08, 2021 1:37 pm There is also a small fire on Cottonwood Pass between Gypsum and Basalt, Cottonwood Pass is currently closed. It was still under an acre at lunch time, so hopefully they get it out quickly. We are expected to have some wind later today. Its getting pretty hazy in Avon right now (but that is mainly from the same NM/AZ fires not this little one).
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Re: San Juans- Air Quality
you've got to be shitting me.
i booked our little trip to telluride in early june just for this very reason.
as of this moment the telluride ski webcam looks pretty normal anyway.
thanks for the heads up.
i booked our little trip to telluride in early june just for this very reason.
as of this moment the telluride ski webcam looks pretty normal anyway.
thanks for the heads up.
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Re: San Juans- Air Quality
Can confirm. I just drove from Taylor Park to Buena Vista and the day started off clear and blue but Cottonwood Pass was very hazy, almost white, and BV is slightly less so.ScottLovesRMNP wrote: ↑Tue Jun 08, 2021 2:06 pm Sawatch Range looks absolutely horrible right now— peaks are all faded out by smoky skies
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Re: San Juans- Air Quality
I have a bad feeling this summer is going to suck.
Make wilderness less accessible.
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La Platas from Cortez this afternoon....
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Re: San Juans- Air Quality
The smoke rolled in this morning around 9:00 AM (between Lake City and Silverton) and didn’t depart until this afternoon. Looks like the AZ fires are going to be growing over the next couple of weeks so smoke can be expected.
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Dark orange sunset in Denver tonight (6/8/21). Going to be a long summer.