 into the area here in colorado springs a nice ridge is like what we call it so the air is going up into canada and coming back down and when it comes back down into the united states it's pulling down that wildfire the smoke because it reaches so high up into the atmosphere it's pulling that air down um here and that's why we're getting that smoke the smoke is causing increased ozone levels and some air quality issues but meteorologists say conditions should start to improve later today into tomorrow