Denver weather: Smoke once again brings poor air quality on Monday

Colorado volition beryllium blistery and smoky again connected Monday. The Front Range has settled into a upwind signifier of lukewarm days, with fume from California wildfires flowing close into the region’s air.

Not rather a transcript & paste of yesterday's forecast, but today's upwind volition beryllium precise similar. Highs successful the mid 90s for the plains, on with smoky skies are successful the forecast. Avoid prolonged outdoor activities again today. #cowx

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— NWS Boulder (@NWSBoulder) August 9, 2021

Greg Hanson from the National Weather Service (NWS) elaborate the aerial flow’s consecutive westward trajectory, explaining the mediocre aerial comes from a hyper-active occurrence season.

“Not a batch of betterment today,” Hanson said of the aerial connected Monday. “It is going to beryllium successful this for a while, arsenic agelong arsenic those wildfires are burning successful the west.”

The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) warns of imaginable respiratory issues for adjacent steadfast adults.

“Wildfire fume from California and different occidental states is expected to proceed to origin accrued concentrations of good particulate matter, reaching the Unhealthy class astatine times passim the Colorado Front Range connected Sunday and Monday,” CDPHE warned.

The monsoonal moisture that was successful the country past week brought amended aerial quality. That upwind signifier has mislaid retired to a high-pressure strategy successful the occidental portion of Colorado, bringing fume from the west.

Denver is besides nether an ozone enactment alert, arsenic ozone is forecasted to beryllium astatine unhealthy levels for delicate groups.

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9pm (8/8) fume exemplary forecast update: A westerly pitchy watercourse volition bring fume from the California fires towards Colorado implicit the adjacent 2 days. By the mediate of the week, the pitchy watercourse volition determination northbound of Colorado. This whitethorn dilatory alteration fume by the extremity of the week. #COwx pic.twitter.com/AW11qmXmsg

— NWS Boulder (@NWSBoulder) August 9, 2021

Denver volition scope 96 degrees connected Monday, according to the NWS. Sun volition effort to poke its mode done the fume connected a wide time successful presumption of clouds. Smoke volition bent into the evening with a debased of 62 degrees.

Tuesday volition beryllium similar. Sunny with a precocious of 93 degrees and a debased of 61 degrees, each clouded by smoke.

Wednesday whitethorn beryllium the hottest time of the week, with a precocious of 97 degrees and a debased of 62 degrees. It should beryllium a sunny day.

The NWS warns that fume and mediocre aerial prime whitethorn instrumentality astir done astatine slightest the middle of this week.