Colorado is burning again.

[madamesilverspurs]

Rocky Mountain National Park (Estes Park, west of Ft. Collins), Black Forest, Royal Gorge

http://www.9news.com/news/article/340546/339/Multiple-wildfires-burning-in-Colorado

[villager]

1. As the West will continue to do, under our new climate regime...

n/t

[kentuck]

2. I can see the smoke from Black Forest.

From downtown Springs.

[earthside]

3. It may be even worse this summer than last.

I just saw the smoke from RMNP driving back to Denver from Rapid City.

In Rapid City this past weekend I talk to a cousin of mine who is a manager in FEMA disaster services (or some such thing) and they are expecting this summer to be hotter and drier, with more combustible vegetation because we did get a bit more moisture this spring thus letting the grass, shrubs, etc. get taller. They are also predicting more fires.

It is windy and a hundred degrees here in the west Denver suburbs -- you can feel everything drying out.

[madamesilverspurs]

4. Smoke

A friend who lives on the northside of Cheyenne WY took this photo of the smoke from Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado.