Sunday, October 11, 2020

The West is on fire still.

October 11, 2020
By Danielle Chavira

Rain and snow have made their way to the Mullen and Cameron Peak Fires burning on either side of the Colorado-Wyoming state line. Meteorologists at the Mullen Fire say the northwestern corner of the fire line started seeing snow at 9 a.m. on Sunday.

The weather system will move across the region into the early afternoon. Weather experts expect between 1/2 of an inch for parts Colorado and up to 2 inches in higher elevations in Wyoming....

...The Cameron Peak Fire now sits at 134,559 acres and is 47% contained. The fire is about 3,000 acres away from moving into the spot of the second largest wildfire in Colorado state history — overtaking the Hayman Fire in 2002....