Another smoke pall summer as wildfires choke fresh air

Another smoke pall summer as wildfires choke fresh air

As of this writing, there is some hope that the wildfire smoke pall brought into the Valley by a cold front earlier this week may have been drifted away by mid-week. The National Weather Service in Pueblo reported, amid the grey mass veiling the Sangre de Cristo peaks, that area smoke would be cleared Wednesday. Hot and dry conditions, teetering on the brink of a NWS heat hazard alert and clearly prime fire weather, remain for the week, with som…