Smoke descends on Albuquerque, where is it coming from?
May 31—Albuquerque and much of the Rio Grande Valley were blanketed in a haze of smoke on Saturday from south of the border.
Meteorologists say an outflow boundary, described as a kind of "shockwave," from thunderstorms in Mexico on Friday carried the smoke 500 miles from wildfires in northwestern Chihuahua.
Belen and Socorro felt some of the worst effects, with less than two miles of visibility, and health alerts were issued for Bernalillo County through Saturday.
The National Weather Service expected the smoke to be gone by Sunday and said a lack of wind in the metro area was causing it to hang around longer than expected.
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