DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE
IMAGERY THROUGH 0245 UTC, June 25, 2018.
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SMOKE:
Washington/Oregon/California/Nevada...
Moderately dense to thick smoke emanated from a number of wildfires
scattered across northern and central California and from a cluster of
wildfires over north central Oregon. The movement of the smoke was rather
erratic during the day with smoke spreading out in multiple directions. By
the end of the day, the larger shield of thinner density smoke from both
the fires over Oregon and California appeared to basically merge leading
to an extensive region of smoke stretching from western Washington
southward over Oregon to northern and central California with some of
the smoke spreading over the border into western and southwestern Nevada.
Colorado/New Mexico/Oklahoma/Texas...
Wildfire activity over southwestern Colorado, northeastern New Mexico,
and southeastern New Mexico produced plumes of varying density smoke which
fanned out and spread to the east covering portions of southern Colorado,
northeastern and southeastern New Mexico, western and northwestern Texas,
and the Oklahoma panhandle. Farther to the east, a few fires over central
and north central Texas produced plumes of mainly thin to locally moderate
density which moved quickly to the north with some of the some reaching
southwestern Oklahoma.
Canada/Northern US...
Multiple wildfires scattered over a very large region extending from
the southern Yukon and central British Columbia eastward western and
northern Ontario were responsible for an extensive area of thin density
smoke which covered much of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba as well
as portions of Ontario. The thinner density smoke also appeared to extend
southward across the northern US from northern Montana through the Great
Lakes Region. Much thicker patches of smoke were noted especially across
central and northern Alberta, northern Saskatchewan, northern Manitoba,
and northwestern Ontario.
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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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