You'll want to be on the lookout for increased chances of "enhanced" red sunsets in the coming days with smoke coming from wildfires west of us. Right now, there is a BIG fire burning north of Grand Junction, Colorado and that smoke plume has gone through the Denver area. The Pine Gulch fire (as of this writing) has consumed roughly 40,000 acres, with the cause determined to be a lightning strike.
Nearby, there is the Grizzly Creek fire, which is much smaller (around 2,000 acres burned), but neither one of them are fully contained.
Upper level winds across Colorado continued to be aimed right at Kansas (almost nearly straight west to east), so that smoke will be coming across Kansas soon. It does get dispersed as it moves along, but it could be enough to cause some extra red sunrise/sunsets the next couple of days.
Have a great day. Tomorrow I'll go into more detail about weekend rain chances and the much cooler weather still coming our way next week.
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