DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE
IMAGERY THROUGH 0300 UTC July 1, 2018.
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SMOKE:
Area from the Southwestern US to the Central and Northern Plains...
A large area of thin density smoke from a number of wildfires across
Utah and Colorado was visible extending from southern and eastern Utah
across Colorado and over the Central and Northern Plains with the leading
portion of the smoke likely reaching up across Minnesota to southwestern
Ontario. Thicker smoke was noted over southern and eastern Utah closer
to the wildfire activity there and over southern, central, and eastern
Colorado spreading out over the high plains of western Kansas and western
Nebraska. A narrow portion of the thin density smoke from the fires in
southern and southwestern Utah moved more to the southwest and extended
over northern Arizona and a portion of southeastern California.
California...
The wildfire in the central Sierra Mountains continued to emit locally
moderately dense smoke with a broader area of thinner density smoke
spreading to the west and southwest over central California. New wildfires
erupted over Lake and Yolo counties of north central California with
thick smoke moving quickly to the southwest and over the San Francisco
metro area.
Middle Mississippi Valley to the Eastern Great Lakes...
A swath of thin to moderately dense detached leftover smoke likely from
the fires in Utah and Colorado was seen extending from near St. Louis
MO northeastward over Chicago and lower Michigan to western New York
and northwestern Pennsylvania and southeastern Ontario.
Southeastern Canada/Northern Maine...
A region of thin to moderate dense smoke was seen from eastern Ontario
across central and southern Quebec to Newfoundland and off the coast
over the nearby Atlantic. The smoke also appeared to affect northern and
northeastern Maine. This smoke was likely attributed to wildfires over
Ontario and especially Quebec. Moderately dense to locally thick smoke
was seen from the wildfire activity in central Quebec.
DUST:
Area from the Tropical Atlantic to eastern Mexico and the South Central
US...
An extremely large area of Saharan dust extended from the west coast of
Africa across the tropical Atlantic, over the Caribbean, Central America,
eastern Mexico, the southern and western Gulf of Mexico, and inland over
southeastern/eastern Texas, western Louisiana, and possibly as far north
as Arkansas.
Northwestern Mexico...
Several swaths of blowing dust were noted spreading to the north-northwest
from sources over northern Baja and far northwestern 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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