Tabby - I can only imagine it on your side of town. Yesterday morning (Sunday 6/10) it was SOO stinky on my side of town.. when I got up in the morning the entire neighborhood was hazy & nasty. Then by noonish it got windy here on the South side & the smell dissipated quite a bit.
Mama - We got smoke mostly from the northern fires (about 2.5-3 hours north). not good.. not good. Colorado is a giant box, as you know. Denver is not quite in the center, more like a bit off to the north of center & to the east. However, the I25 corridor is a humungo valley with the mountains to the west & the rolling Plains on the east, so winds follow I25 very nicely like a chimney. That's why when we get a storm from the North, it always smells like a dairy from the dairies up near Ft. Collins/Greeley. If it's a fast North storm, it smells like oil fields from Wyoming. If it's a south storm, it's usually violent due to the heat from the Baja (yes, we get Baja winds all the way up here!) combining with the cooler winds from Canada.. BOOM! Ft. Collins is WAY up north near the Wyoming border. It's about an hour & half north from downtown Denver, so about 2.5 hours from me north.
Found this map. Hope this clears up where it's at
The smoke lifted off the ground this morning, so I could actually see the mountains for the first time in a few days.
