DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE
IMAGERY THROUGH 1730 UTC June 28, 2018.
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SMOKE:
Western and Central US...
An area of moderately dense to thick smoke emanating from the West
Valley Fire in southwestern Utah spread to the northeast across central
and northeastern Utah into northwestern Colorado and southwestern
Wyoming. Moderately dense to thick smoke from the Spring Valley Fire
in south central Colorado extended to the east and northeast affecting
eastern Colorado, extreme western Kansas, far northeastern New Mexico,
and the western part of the Oklahoma panhandle. A much larger surrounding
mass of thin density smoke attributed to the above mentioned fires as
well as other wildfires burning in the Southwestern US and California
affected portions of the Great Basin, the Rocky Mountain Region, and
across the Northern and Central Plains to at least as far east as the
Middle Mississippi Valley.
Canada...
A stripe of thin to moderately dense smoke from wildfires in western
Alberta, and the southern half of Saskatchewan covered parts of central
and southern Alberta and central and southern Saskatchewan.
Wildfires in east central Manitoba and western and central Ontario were
responsible for an area of varying density smoke which stretched from
eastern Manitoba to central Ontario.
An elongated swath of thin density smoke stretched from the southern
part of Hudson Bay across central Quebec and Newfoundland to out over
the Atlantic well south of Greenland. This smoke was likely due to the
wildfire activity farther to the west across central and western Canada
with locally thicker smoke also in the vicinity of the wildfire over
southeastern Quebec.
A west-east elongated area of leftover thin density smoke extended from
the eastern part of the Northwest Territories and western Nunavut to the
central portion of Hudson Bay. This smoke was also likely from wildfire
activity over central and western Canada.
DUST:
Atlantic/Caribbean/Gulf of Mexico...
A very large area of Saharan dust was noted slowly spreading to the
west across the Atlantic and over the Caribbean including Puerto Rico,
Hispaniola, Cuba, Jamaica, and into Central America, southeastern Mexico,
and the southern and central Gulf of Mexico.
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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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