Hazy Days and Smoky Nights

Smoke impacts today will remain over south central Idaho mostly due to local and regional fires. Transport winds will be light, likely causing smoke to settle again at night. Once again, there will be periods of haze throughout the day, particularly over southern Idaho, the Central Idaho Mountains, and the Panhandle. As night falls, expect smoke to drain in the Treasure Valley, the Middle Snake River Plain, and Clearwater into the LC Valley. Winds from the West-Northwest will be light but any smoke they bring into Idaho will be primarily from Washington, southern BC, and Oregon.

This model is suggesting localized smoke impacts in the Central Idaho Mountains, the Clearwater Drainages and into the Palouse with locally scattered impacts within the Spokane-Coeur d’Alene corridor.

Bluesky Smoke Forecast 24hr maximum PM2.5 concentrations- initialized 00 UTC 08/07/2018 and valid for the maximum modeled PM2.5 for the 24 hour period ending at 00 UTC 08/08/2018 (6pm MDT ).  Date Source: USFS AirFire – Bluesky