DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200Z November 15, 2018.
SMOKE:
California...
A large batch of moderately dense to thick smoke from the Camp fire in
northern California covered much of the Sacramento Valley with an even
bigger area of thinner density smoke from this fire extending farther to
the south over the San Joaquin Valley and across Santa Barbara and to the
west and southwest across much of the remainder of northern and central
California including the San Francisco-Oakland metro areas. Leftover smoke
from the past several days from this fire and also from the Woosley fire
over southern California extended well off the coast of California over
the Pacific. Only thinner density smoke was visible periodically during
the day spreading to the west and offshore of southern California from
the Woosley fire. Ongoing wildfires over Tulare County of the interior
portion of south central California produced a relatively smaller patch
of moderately dense to locally thick smoke which generally affected
locations near and to the west and north of the fires.
Northwestern U.S./Southwestern Canada...
A very large number of seasonal type fires were noted over portions
of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and western Montana in the Northwestern
U.S. and British Columbia, Alberta, and southwestern Saskatchewan
in Southwestern Canada though little in the way of smoke was visible
in satellite imagery. Cloudiness over some of this region did likely
interfere with smoke detection in satellite imagery.
Central U.S...
Scattered relatively small seasonal type fires were analyzed from central
Texas to Minnesota and Wisconsin though very little smoke was visible
in satellite imagery.
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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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SSDFireTeam@noaa.gov