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DENVER—Those attending Barack Obama’s open-stadium acceptance speech in Denver Thursday don’t have to worry about rain but they may smell smoke from distant wildfires in northwest Colorado and Idaho, the National Weather Service says.
Chances of rain Thursday evening are “slim to none, and slim just left town,” meteorologist Carl Burroughs says. Temperatures at Invesco Field at Mile High are expected to be in the 70s.
Hazy skies in Denver and occasional whiffs of smoke come from wildfires in northwest Colorado and Idaho, Burroughs says.
In Colorado, lightning this week caused more than 30 fires some 160 miles from Denver. Most of the fires were less than an acre in size, the Bureau of Land Management says.
