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Smoke Outlook for August 16, 2024. Visit Current Smoke Outlook for Northern California-Coastal Mountains (airfire.org) to view an on-line version. 

Outlook: 

Improvement in air quality, overall, is anticipated going into Saturday and Saturday Night, especially for locations east and southeast of the fire that have been the most heavily impacted during the past several days. Transport winds from the W-NW today will become more from the S-SW on Saturday and strengthen as the next Pacific storm system approaches the region. As a result, once the inversion breaks by early afternoon, new smoke will get pushed nearly due east today. Cooler temperatures and higher humidity will bring improved fire weather conditions on Saturday with generally less smoke production anticipated. Meanwhile, areas of moderate smoke will continue to settle along portions of the Highway 96 corridor immediately west of the fire but nighttime and morning impacts will be considerably more widespread over the Salmon River Watershed and deep valleys to the east of the fire extending southeast toward Weaverville.