Idaho Smoke Map

Idaho Smoke Map Legend

**(Preliminary Data Warning: Data found on the map shown below is preliminary and is subject to change. Data is in local standard time format - no adjustment for daylight savings time.)

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Tuesday, August 17, 2021

Clearing across southern Idaho today

Air quality forecasts are in the Moderate to Unhealthy categories. 

Smoke will continue to clear across southern Idaho, reaching as far east as Pocatello by midnight tonight. At that time, a fresh wave of smoke will enter southern Idaho from the west, increasing concentrations in the Treasure Valley by tomorrow morning before clearing tomorrow afternoon. Conditions will clear from the Columbia Plateau into central Idaho while smoke currently located over the Panhandle will track south and converge with this incoming air in Kootenai County. This, along with the threat of precipitation, could scour the atmosphere across North Idaho. Central Idaho looks to clear this afternoon before a secondary surge of smoke approaches from the northwest. Finally, the southern Panhandle also looks to experience brief clearing today before a locally-concentrated area of smoke settles over Kootenai, Shoshone, and northern Benewah Counties tonight by midnight.

Video: Modeled RADAR initialized at 06Z (0000MDT 08/17/21). It shows the precipitation band ahead of the cold front and the timing it is anticipated to pass through Idaho.

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