DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0000Z October 16, 2017
SMOKE Northern California: Wildfires burning in northern and central California are producing widespread areas of moderately dense to dense smoke. The dense smoke from the wildfires in northern California is currently moving north to northeast with some lighter smoke moving toward the west and into the Pacific. The Lion wildfire in central California is producing some very heavy smoke moving toward the north to northeast with some lighter smoke moving to the south-southwest. Additional wildfires farther north and along the eastern side of the San Joaquin Valley are also producing moderately dense smoke moving north and fanning to the northeast too. Some light remnant smoke can be seen along the Pacific Coast from Los Angeles to near the Oregon border and also trapped in the San Joaquin Valley. Other smaller fires are burning throughout the state producing mostly light smoke. J Kibler 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