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Wildfires are raging across the Northwest, aided by winds of a high pressure system that is bringing the smoke from those fires to Colorado.
The result is hazy skies over Eagle County that are likely to continue for the next few days.
. Wildfires began to spark across the region in the dry and windy days that followed.
As of Sunday afternoon, the Bootleg Fire in Oregon had grown to more than 140,000 acres, an area of about 220 square miles. The Dry Gulch Fire in Oregon in Idaho is more than 50,000 acres, the Robertson Draw Fire on the Wyoming/Montana border is at about 30,000 acres and the MY Complex Fire in Montana
Hazy skies in area not from Colorado fires
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Western wildfires blamed for hazy skies, but none burning in Southwest Colorado
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Due to rising temperatures, the Yampa River is very shallow below Oakton Ditch. (Photo by Scott Hummer.)
Steamboat Springs has already broken multiple heat records this year, but another might have been broken Friday with a record high of 94 degrees recorded at Steamboat Springs Airport.
“It’s going to be very close,” said Mike Weissbluth, Steamboat-based meteorologist and operator of snowalarm.com
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Routt County should expect high temperatures to continue over the weekend and at into next week, Weissbluth said, with temperatures increasing about 3 degrees each day from Sunday to Tuesday.
A storm churning in the Gulf of Alaska, however, will eject several waves early and late in the week, which will likely bring moisture and cooler temperatures to Routt County, Weissbluth said. That moisture may include rain Wednesday through Friday, but Weissbluth said it is too soon to offer a confident prediction.