DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE
IMAGERY THROUGH 0245 UTC, June 24, 2018.
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SMOKE:
Utah/Colorado/New Mexico/Northwestern Texas/Southwestern Oklahoma...
Patches of leftover thin density smoke primarily from the Trail Mountain
fire in central Utah were visible moving to the southeast across portions
of southwestern and south central Colorado and across the area stretching
from northeastern New Mexico to southwestern Oklahoma. New thin to
moderate density smoke from this fire during the afternoon spread to
the east across eastern and northeastern Utah into northwestern Colorado.
Oregon/Idaho/Nevada/Utah/Wyoming...
A cluster of wildfires in north central Oregon was emitting thick smoke
which spread to the south-southeast during the day. A large mass of
thin to moderately dense smoke mainly from these fires covered a good
portion of central, eastern and southeastern Oregon, southern Idaho,
northern Nevada, northern Utah, and southwestern Wyoming.
Canada...
Wildfire activity increased during the day over central British Columbia
with a couple of fires producing very dense smoke which moved off to the
east-northeast with the leading edge nearly entering Alberta by late in
the day.
In addition, a very extensive region of thin density smoke attributed
mainly to wildfire activity in central and western Canada was seen
stretching from northeastern British Columbia and the southern part of
the Northwest Territories eastward to Ontario and Quebec. Thicker density
smoke was noted moving west from a number of wildfires in western Ontario
and eastern Manitoba. Thicker density smoke was also seen moving primarily
to the north from wildfires in northern Saskatchewan.
DUST:
Northwestern Mexico/Southern Arizona...
A patch of moderately dense to locally thick blowing dust emanated from
multiple sources over the western part of the Mexican state of Sonora
in northwestern Mexico and spread to the north and northeast reaching
into south central Arizona to the west of Tuscon just prior to sunset.
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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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