Containment. It started monday when high winds blew a Metal Building into a fire line. The smoke has been making it tough for people to breathe across the front range. The haze is settling in over the rockies. Look at this picture that jason howly sent us. Look at the mountains, you see the smoke. Marty, there was a little bit of break in the strong winds yesterday but it sounds like its windy there today again. Its windy especially this morning. The wind is out of t which will clear us out. We wont be quite as hazy around here today as we have been the last two days because the wind direction has shifted for us. Here this morning, we started with some really Early Morning showers. Now we have about 50 50, clouds and clearing sky. This is how things are shaping up down south around the junkins fire. Wind gusts are strong in and around pueblo. Well keep them up 10 to 20 miles per afternoon, then decrease late in the day. Humidity levels dropping into the teens and 20s, which is not fant
But average its midoctober. On the right, its carter lake, a wildfire burning there, now 75 contained. It may take fire crews a couple of more days to get that thing wrapped up. Despite rain weve had recently, the past several weeks of dry weather has led to this. Colorado back on the National Drought map. The yellow including the metro area, dry. And the brown area, its moderate drought situation. Our longterm Water Supplies look good, but the drought is putting a strain on farmers. Were expecting more rain today. We are expecting a little bit of rain and a big cooldown. Look at some of our temperatures this morning. Estes park youre waking upto 40. 44 ii conifer. Much cooler starto our day. Only in the 70s. We promised you low 70s and heres what were expecting by 3 00, denver 72, greeley 74. Even cooler air farther south. That cold front diving pretty far south into new mexico. It will bring our temperatures down, keep things unsettled. We have a little cloud cover this morning. Well