What's with the haze?

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Re: What's with the haze?

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I'm honestly not even quite sure what to do anymore to mitigate the impact of this as an asthmatic. I try to stay off peaks during bad days but right now even running in town is tough. I have an expensive Respro mask but while I can hike with it on its significantly harder.

If this is the new normal its going to suck for those with respiratory issues.
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the smoke has worked it's way across the nation. we had it bad in SW Michigan last week...

current smoke plume from Airnow.gov-
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Oh so that's what's going on with the view in the RMNP Continental Divide web cam.
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Jon Frohlich wrote: Mon Jul 12, 2021 9:46 pm I'm honestly not even quite sure what to do anymore to mitigate the impact of this as an asthmatic. I try to stay off peaks during bad days but right now even running in town is tough. I have an expensive Respro mask but while I can hike with it on its significantly harder.

If this is the new normal its going to suck for those with respiratory issues.
It is terrible for yet another year in the entire west. The only real option is to move to the East coast where is actually rains. Good luck and hope the smoke get better soon. I am 10 miles from the Muddy slide fire, and was evacuated two times for a week each time back in 2018 for the Silver Creek fire. I really wish I could just move to Switzerland, snow mountains and rain. No wild fires.
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Also, its started a month earlier than 2020. The first gagging one in 2020 was mid-August Grizzly fire. The made climbing and camping unpleasanr along with closure of many campgrounds,
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All we can do is have wishful-thinking and hope it won’t turn into the catastrophe 2020 was regarding wildfires. The last thing I was wanting to see upon returning to the state was grey, smoke filled skies. Has the haze become increasingly worse over the past few days? It seems all ranges are being affected.
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Does anyone who can understand these satellite smoke maps better than me know if the haze situation is supposed to get better or worse over the next few days?
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Looking at the map today I think this worse than at any point last year in Colorado. Last year the fires near the front range meant the smoke that moved east quickly left Colorado. This year the big fires are all north and west of Colorado. Covering most of the North American continent at the moment.
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Post by Chicago Transplant »

It depends on where the predominant winds are coming from, last week it wasn't hazy. It was also stormy last week, whereas this weekend had barely any clouds. I am hoping as the storms drift back in the next couple of days the smoke goes back away. It can definitely change from day to day, but I am not sure how to predict what days will be bad.
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benmangelsdorf wrote: Tue Jul 13, 2021 10:10 am Does anyone who can understand these satellite smoke maps better than me know if the haze situation is supposed to get better or worse over the next few days?
Open Summit has some short-term smoke forecasting tools (linked within the article below); as well as a "daily summit" write-up which often talks about smoke forecast:

https://opensummit.com/dailysummit
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randalmartin wrote: Tue Jul 13, 2021 11:29 am Looking at the map today I think this worse than at any point last year in Colorado. Last year the fires near the front range meant the smoke that moved east quickly left Colorado. This year the big fires are all north and west of Colorado. Covering most of the North American continent at the moment.

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I'm no meteorologist but I don't think the entire continent is supposed to be covered in smoke
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Post by Mountain Gerbil »

If I'm reading the forecast right, it appears the monsoon winds should kick in this weekend and blow the smoke out for most of next week, at least. Looks like the high pressure bubble is moving north, which I guess means the northern rockies and upper plains will get the brunt of the smoke from the 19-23, at least.
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