DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0100Z October 10, 2017
SMOKE: California... The numerous disastrous fires over northern California continued to burn and generate tremendous amounts of smoke this afternoon and evening. The largest and most dense area of smoke was associated with the fires north of San Francisco. This very dense smoke had drifted to the southwest out into the Pacific but by evening was being drawn north along the coast and also spreading back to the east and moving inland from San Francisco northward to Humboldt county. The Lion fire in the southern Sierras and additional fires in the central and northern Sierra were producing smoke that cover much of the Sierras. A fire near Anaheim and La Jolla in Orange county was producing a large area of light to moderately dense smoke with locally dense areas. This smoke was swirling around but had mostly moved out into the Pacific. Very thin remnant smoke, likely from the Lion fire, was seen over the northern Gulf of California and off the coast in the Pacific from the California/Baja Mexico border. Arizona... A fire in Coconino National Forest was observed producing smoke that was blowing southwest towards Phoenix. DUST: California... A small plume of light blowing dust was seen moving south over far southern California west of Blythe. Ruminski 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/Products/land/hms.html GIS: http://www.firedetect.noaa.gov/viewer.htm KML: http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/FIRE/kml.html ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS REGARDING THIS PRODUCT SHOULD BE SENT TO SSDFireTeam@noaa.gov