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Hazy Conditions to Continue into the Work Week

Smoky conditions have been stuck in Eastern Idaho and Western Wyoming since yesterday and are looking to stay put.  In fact, Western WY is currently under a air quality alert until Monday at 1pm.  This smoke is mostly coming from fires that aren't even in our local area.  Most of the fires are currently blazing up in northern Idaho and over west in Oregon.  Since we have had winds blowing from the west/northwest, the wind has been picking up the smoke from those fires and has essentially carried it over to this region.  Unfortunately, our future conditions aren't favoring for the process to stop soon. Wind speeds will be calm and breezy both this week, but the wind direction will remain the same to continue bringing in more smoke.  A red flag warning is in effect for Fire Weather Zone 410 Upper Snake River Valley/Idaho Falls BLM, Fire Weather Zone 425 Middle Snake River Valley/Twin Falls BLM north of the Snake River, Fire Weather Zone 475 East Salmon River Mountains/Salmon NF and Fire Weather Zone 476 Lemhi and Lost River Range/Challis NF until 9pm Sunday night.  I would not be surprised to see this be extended into the week at all.  We do have slight rain chances of 10% that could increase heading into the week which could help, but the problem is that it isn't supposed to bring much rainfall.  It won't be enough to overcome the overall dry fire conditions.

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Evan Thomason

Evan is the weekend meteorologist and reporter.

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