DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE
IMAGERY THROUGH 1700 UTC June 29, 2018.
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SMOKE:
Western and Central US...
A very large mass of smoke of varying density covers a good portion
of Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, and eastern Montana with the smoke also
extending eastward across the Plains from North Dakota and western
Minnesota southward to Oklahoma. The thickest smoke this morning appeared
to be over the Plains affecting eastern Colorado, the northern part of
Kansas, much of Nebraska, and eastern South Dakota. The sources for much
of this smoke was a number of wildfires burning across far southern
Wyoming(Badger Creek Fire), central Colorado(Sugarloaf Fire), south
central Colorado(Spring Creek Fire), Southwestern Colorado(416 Fire),
and southwestern Utah(Black Mountain Fire and West Valley Fire).
South Central and Southeastern Canada...
Wildfires over eastern Manitoba, western and central Ontario, and
scattered across Quebec were responsible for a large region of varying
density smoke stretching from western Ontario eastward over central
and southern Quebec. The thickest smoke this morning was located across
central and eastern Ontario into western Quebec. Areas of cloud cover
though across the southern half of Canada likely interfered with
additional smoke information from satellite imagery.
DUST:
Southeastern Texas/Eastern and Southeastern Mexico/Caribbean/Puerto
Rico...
A very significant extent of Saharan dust was evident in satellite imagery
this morning covering much of the Atlantic south of 25N and extending to
the west over Puerto Rico, Hispaniola, and at least the eastern portion
of Cuba. The dust also covers most of the Caribbean south of Cuba and
stretches to the west into a portion of Central America and eastern
Mexico and over the southern and western part of the Gulf of Mexico
reaching as far west as southern and southeastern Texas.
JS
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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