 happening so the reason that we are seeing smoke in our area is those wildfires that are happening in canada they're burning and having a lot of smoke go into the air well we have a high pressure system out to the west which is pulling that air 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