DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1730Z December 8, 2017
SMOKE: Southern California/Northwestern Baja California... The wildfires in Ventura County in southern California continue to emit large quantities of thick smoke. This smoke is generally moving due west. In addition to the complex of fires in Ventura county, another wildfire in northwestern San Diego County (near Oceanside) was observed emitting a thin smoke plume that extended to the west-southwest between the Channel Islands and San Diego. A third wildfire south of Tijuana, Mexico was producing a moderate to thick smoke plume. This smoke plume was extending about 50 miles to the west-southwest from the parent wildfire. Of note with this analysis...mid-to-high level cloud cover was seen over the Pacific Ocean from the California Coast out to about 130W. This cloud cover was obscuring the westward extent of the smoke plumes of these wildfires in southern California and the most extreme northwestern portions of the Baja Peninsula. Hosley 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