The record wildfire season of 2012 continues. While the High
Park fire near Fort Collins has been contained, several wildfires have started
burning in Wyoming. Yesterday the winds shifted from the north and we had very poor air quality all day with visible
smoke in the air at ground level. It also smelled terrible.
The smoke was from a fire 28 miles NW of Wheatland, Wyoming.
The size of the Arapaho Fire is 82,187 acres and is burning sage and timber in
rugged terrain.
There is another smaller (so far) fire burning closer to the Snowy
Range called the Squirrel Creek Fire, the community around the Fox Park area has been
ordered to evacuate. Here is a link to the fire information for the state. http://www.inciweb.org/state/52/
Afternoon and evening thundershowers are predicted for the next several days.
Let’s hope that some moisture gets onto those fires and the ones in Colorado
too.
As I came out of the grocery store (alright it was the liquor store) I noticed the sun was a red disc in the western sky. By the time I got home and L was able to get her camera out, there was just a little of it left just above the horizon. She did a great job of capturing the mood of the sunset. The colors in this photo are really quite accurate.
ReplyDeletewow, it is pretty!
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