Posted by moresmilesplease on August 28, 2008 at 9:57 a.m. (Suggest removal)

Wow, quite a bit of smoke 'wafting' our way.

Posted by plastard on August 28, 2008 at 10:01 a.m. (Suggest removal)

Well, that explains it. That is as moresmilesplease has said, quite a bit of smoke 'wafting'. Then again.. 27k acres is a lot of wood to burn. I'd love to see a satellite picture of it. Too bad google maps isn't real time.

Posted by apf on August 28, 2008 at 10:30 a.m. (Suggest removal)

I was a little confused during my morning jaunt up the peak to peak-- early morning the high peaks had wisps of the brown bathtub ring that the front range can get. By later on, the peaks were enveloped in a pinky fog, pouring over from the west side, that looked more like smoke, despite it being otherwise crystal clear up here. Beautiful!

Posted by plastard on August 28, 2008 at 10:42 a.m. (Suggest removal)

So, apparently it's blotted out the view of the mountains from broomfield, my current location. I have to wonder if the 27k fire is not going to be 'contained'.

Posted by mcmann on August 28, 2008 at 11:20 a.m. (Suggest removal)

Where exactly are these fires? Northwest CO is a broad area.

Posted by klmarkey on August 28, 2008 at 11:22 a.m. (Suggest removal)

Even though the winds may blow quickly at times, the air mass that carries the smoke moves only some 15-25 miles per hour (slower in summer), approximately west to east on average. As the crow flies, it's about 200 miles from Meeker and Craig. The smoke from yesterday's fire there is only now reaching us here. The cool inversion is ideal to trap the smoke close to the ground instead of dispersing it.

Posted by SoBoPop on August 28, 2008 at 11:30 a.m. (Suggest removal)

With all the beetle kill up there, its amazing that this is the first big fire of the year. If we don't remove those dead trees there will be some big, bad conflagrations in the next few years.

Free firewood?

Posted by inmyriver on August 28, 2008 at 11:59 a.m. (Suggest removal)

Yuck! The "air up there" looks like crap today!

http://instaar.colorado.edu/tundracam...

Posted by Indian_Peaks on August 28, 2008 at 12:16 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Smoke from wildfires? Hah! It's all those 'heads in Nederland torching up! That said, it gave us a killer sunset least evening...

Posted by lsmith342000 on August 28, 2008 at 1:52 p.m. (Suggest removal)

It can't be 27,000 acres. That would be big news. I just checked the Post and the Grand Junction Sentinel and can't even find a mention. I wish they would say where the fires were. I'm going camping tomorrow.

Posted by camera.5.mbrna on August 28, 2008 at 1:56 p.m. (Suggest removal)

I wish they would say where the fires were.
Then it would be an informative article.

Posted by hershalsavage on August 28, 2008 at 1:57 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Handy reference site for all wildfire info..

http://www.nifc.gov/fire_info/nfn.htm

Posted by ksaiii on August 28, 2008 at 2:38 p.m. (Suggest removal)

What about the 57,000 acres burning in Wyoming? Couldn't that contribute to our haze???

Posted by voice_of_reason on August 28, 2008 at 3:03 p.m. (Suggest removal)

from The Coloradoan:

"Residents up and down the Front Range are reporting haze and smoke, but local officials say most likely coming from the Mayberry fire, 32 miles northwest of Craig."

www.nifc.gov

Posted by Stephen on August 28, 2008 at 3:03 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Mayberry (Little Snake Field Office, Bureau of Land Management): 27,000 acres at 75 percent contain. This fire is 32 miles northwest of Craig. Fire activity was minimal yesterday.

Lone (Moffat County FD): 950 acres at an unknown percent contain. This fire is 15 miles north of Elk Springs. Minimal fire activity was reported.

Jordan (White River Field Office, Bureau of Land Management): 500 acres at zero percent contain. This fire is seven miles northwest of Meeker. Fire activity increased. Structures are threatened.

Posted by davelax40 on August 28, 2008 at 6:46 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Maybe this was something else, but I noticed smoke when I walked outside of my front door this morning. I thought another house in the neighborhood was on fire. Did anyone else notice it at street level?

Posted by TomBombadil on August 28, 2008 at 7:58 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Link to the NOAA Satellite Fire Detection Program (shows a graphic of the smoke plumes): http://www.firedetect.noaa.gov/viewer...

Posted by steffl on August 28, 2008 at 10:53 p.m. (Suggest removal)

You could smell the smoke in Louisville this morning, and the divide looks like LA on a bad day. Yet all the Camera sys is that there are fires burning on the west slope. Seriously deficient reporting!

Posted by montanarose on August 28, 2008 at 11 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Hey, I thought it was just the huge carbon footprint wafting in from all the celebs' limos and their private jets flying into and out of Denver for the DNC convention (not to mention all the attendant hot air).

Posted by mehitabel on August 29, 2008 at 10:41 a.m. (Suggest removal)

When I left the house yesterday morning, I thought that perhaps I had hibernated until 4/20....