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Haze In Southern Colorado Caused By CA Wildfires

Updated: Fri 11:32 AM, Jul 11, 2008
Haze from smoke obscures a home, sitting on a ridge overlooking the Pacific Ocean, near the Burns Creek bridge as a part of the Basin Complex Fire in Big Sur, Calif. on Tuesday July 1, 2008. Airborne ash from the hundreds of lightning-sparked fires have caused a spike in air pollution in the area. (AP Photo/Phil Klein)

Haze from smoke obscures a home, sitting on a ridge overlooking the Pacific Ocean, near the Burns Creek bridge as a part of the Basin Complex Fire in Big Sur, Calif. on Tuesday July 1, 2008. Airborne ash from the hundreds of lightning-sparked fires have caused a spike in air pollution in the area. (AP Photo/Phil Klein)

The National Weather Service Office in Pueblo confirms that Friday's hazy sky is attributed to smoke from the ongoing wildfires in California.

11 News Meteorologist Branden Borremans has confirmed that the smoke is being transported over Colorado by westerly winds in the upper levels of the atmosphere.

This westerly wind flow is likely to persist over the Western United States this weekend, meaning the haze might very well hang around over the next couple of days.


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