Smoke and haze from Colorado’s numer­ous wild­fires will con­tin­ue to be felt Sat­ur­day up and down the Front Range, as the weath­er remains hot and dry.

Highs in Den­ver are expect­ed to hit 93 degrees, accord­ing to the Nation­al Weath­er Ser­vice in Boul­der. The East­ern Plains could see severe storms in the afternoon.

The wild­fires led the state’s Depart­ment of Pub­lic Health and Envi­ron­ment to issue air qual­i­ty alerts through Sat­ur­day evening for much of the Front Range.

“Peo­ple with heart or lung dis­ease, old­er adults, and chil­dren should reduce pro­longed or heavy exer­tion on Sat­ur­day,” the alert said.

Smoke and haze to con­tin­ue today, and con­tin­ued hot and dry. Chance of severe storms far east­ern plains this after­noon #cowx pic.twitter.com/rqyuoPZZ1e

— NWS Boul­der (@NWSBoulder) August 15, 2020

Wildfire map

Click mark­ers for details, use but­tons to change what wild­fires are shown. Map data is auto­mat­i­cal­ly updat­ed by gov­ern­ment agen­cies and could lag real-time events. Inci­dent types are num­bered 1–5 — a type 1 inci­dent is a large, com­plex wild­fire affect­ing peo­ple and crit­i­cal infra­struc­ture, a type 5 inci­dent is a small wild­fire with few per­son­nel involved. Find more infor­ma­tion about inci­dent types at the bot­tom of this page.