DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE
IMAGERY THROUGH 1900 UTC July 2, 2018.
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SMOKE:
California/Nevada...
The Pawnee Fire and especially the County Fire in West central California
continued to burn during the day resulting in a large expanse of
moderately dense smoke which spread primarily to the Southwest again
passing across the San Francisco metro area and well offshore of the
coast of central California.
Utah...
A significant smoke plume spread to the East traveling through Nebraska
and into South Dakota from the wildfire in Wasatch County of Northeastern
Utah. Another significant plume was seen curving Southwest to due West
from a fire in southwest Utah.
Colorado and New Mexico...
Remnant smoke from fires in Eastern Colorado and Northeast New Mexico
was converging together and moving Northeast through Nebraska.
Eastern Canada...
Heavy cloud cover prevented accurate source points for a large plume
of remnant smoke that seemed to originate from the fires in Northeast
Canada. The plume covered much of the East coast of the United States
from Maine to South Carolina.
DUST:
The Tropical Atlantic to eastern Mexico and the South Central US...
An extremely large area of Saharan dust extended from the west coast of
Africa across the tropical Atlantic, over the Caribbean, Central America,
eastern Mexico, the southern and western Gulf of Mexico, and inland over
southeastern/eastern Texas.
-Westbrook
THIS TEXT PRODUCT IS PRIMARILY INTENDED TO DESCRIBE SIGNIFICANT AREAS
OF SMOKE ASSOCIATED WITH ACTIVE FIRES AND SMOKE WHICH HAS BECOME
DETACHED FROM THE FIRES AND DRIFTED SOME DISTANCE AWAY FROM THE SOURCE
FIRE. TYPICALLY OVER THE COURSE OF ONE OR MORE DAYS. AREAS OF BLOWING
DUST ARE ALSO DESCRIBED. USERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO
VIEW A GRAPHIC DEPICTION OF THESE AND OTHER PLUMES WHICH ARE LESS
EXTENSIVE AND STILL ATTACHED TO THE SOURCE FIRE IN VARIOUS GRAPHIC
FORMATS ON OUR WEB SITE:
JPEG: http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/land/fire/currenthms.jpg
GIS: ftp://satpsanone.nesdis.noaa.gov/FIRE/HMS/GIS/
KML: http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/land/fire/fire.kml (fire)
http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/land/fire/smoke.kml (smoke)
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