{"id":51228,"date":"2020-10-02T19:02:59","date_gmt":"2020-10-03T01:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/whats-going-on-with-skies-hazy-skies-in-southwest-colorado\/"},"modified":"2020-10-03T01:02:59","modified_gmt":"2020-10-03T01:02:59","slug":"whats-going-on-with-skies-hazy-skies-in-southwest-colorado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/whats-going-on-with-skies-hazy-skies-in-southwest-colorado\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s going on with skies hazy skies in Southwest Colorado?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\"Todd
Todd Swanson climbs the Sky Steps with hazy skies as a backdrop Friday morning. Weather observers and public lands officials gave differing reasons for the haze.<\/span>Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

There was a bit of a mystery Friday about what was causing the hazy skies across Southwest Colorado.<\/p>\n

San Juan Basin Public Health posted to social media that the skies were filled with smoke from wildfires, both in and out of state.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile there is not an air quality advisory in place, local sensors are reporting moderate air quality,\u201d the health department posted.<\/p>\n

But Dan Cuevas with the National Weather Service in Grand Junction said the haze is just high clouds associated with a weather disturbance that\u2019s mostly affecting the eastern side of the Continental Divide.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor us, we\u2019re just getting high clouds out of it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\"Smoke-filled
Smoke-filled skies obscured the mountains Friday outside Durango city limits.<\/span>Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

Cuevas said there\u2019s nothing showing in weather models that smoke is impacting Southwest Colorado.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnless there\u2019s something going on we don\u2019t know about \u2026 we\u2019re going to stick to our guns and just say high clouds,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Claire Ninde, spokeswoman for SJBPH, said a fire and smoke map tracker showed the region covered Friday morning.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am baffled,\u201d she said. \u201cBecause this morning when I looked at the fire and smoke map, we were completely covered \u2026 although it was hard to tell where it was coming from \u2026 and now all of that has shifted to our east.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ninde said the health department consulted with the U.S. Forest Service, which said the skies are obscured because of a combination of smoke and haze.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s very little information I can find on this,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

jromeo@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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