There is good news and bad news on Friday morning. The bad news is that the plume of smoke from Canadian wildfires has reached Colorado. The good news is that the vast bulk of the smoke has remained aloft, and virtually no surface impacts have been seen as of Friday morning. We expect that hazy skies will be present over the region Friday and into Saturday, but we remain optimistic that this will be the main impacts that we see.
Satellite image from CIRA shows a plume of smoke over the Colorado Front Range and eastern plains at 8:40 am (1440 UTC) on Friday, May 30, 2025.
As the large-scale atmospheric pattern shifts eastward, the likelihood of a long-lasting transport episode decreases. However within the transport that is already underway, the possibility of seeing some of this smoke reach the surface cannot be ruled out entirely. The current outlook shows increasing surface concentrations most likely on Saturday afternoon, with AQI levels remaining in the Good to Moderate range.
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