Smoky skies to stick around this week
The hazy and smoky skies in Weiser will stick around for the rest of this week but could clear out early next week with a shift in the wind direction.
The rest of this week will see summer temperatures in the 90s and hazy conditions continue.
The change in the weather next week could even drop the temperatures into the unseasonable mid-70s for daytime highs as a cooler air mass moves through the area.
On Tuesday morning, the air quality in Weiser was in the orange category, which is unhealthy for sensitive groups. The air quality monitoring device is located at Weiser High School and is part of a network of monitoring stations.
Some smoke in the area iscoming from fires in eastern Oregon, including a large wildfire near Juntura, Ore. Most of the smoke is coming from large fires burning in northern California.
The Idaho Department of Environmental Quality on Monday extended an air quality alert through Wednesday afternoon of this week. The alert covers most of southwest Idaho, including Washington County.
The wildfire danger remains high around Weiser and Washington County after two months of hot temperatures and no significant precipitation.
July was a hot, dry month in the west end of the Treasure Valley. The normal precipitation for the month is .30 inches, but there was little more than a trace for the month.
The average high temperature for the month was 93.7 degrees and there were six days with temperatures of 100 degrees or more.
August has been just as dry as the month comes to a close next week. The average high temperature was 95.1 degrees. There has been no measurable precipitation for the month so far. There have been six days of high temperatures of at least 100 degrees.
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