MOSES LAKE — Wildfires and light winds have combined to produce poor quality throughout Eastern Washington, a situation that is forecast to persist for a few days.

“We’re kind of under this stable (air) layer,” said Charlotte Dewey, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Spokane. “We don’t have a lot of (air) mixing near the surface.”

The result is a lot of smoke hanging in the atmosphere, mostly from fires on the eastern slopes of the Washington Cascades and the western slopes of the Rockies in Northern and Central Idaho.

“There are definitely a lot of wildfires across Washington and Idaho,” Dewey said. “It’s likely the smoke and haze are going to stick around for a while.”

While the air may be stagnant, air quality isn’t — it differs from hour to hour and location to loca

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