🔥Today's simulated wildfire smoke forecast across the West. Smoke will increase on Monday across our region as upper level winds shift to the southwest, bringing wildfire smoke from the CA wildfires. | US National Weather Service Boise Idaho

Here's an ANIMATED WEEKEND WILDFIRE SMOKE FORECAST generated by the National Weather Service's high resolution HRRR4 computer forecast model. Smoke forecasts like this aren't perfect---but they offer us insight into the general situation we face when winds send the smoke our way. It shows we can expect smoke to continue feeding into much of the Midwest through the weekend. The air mass will remain quite dry which should reduce moisture-driven "haze" which might otherwise join the smoke, as happe