DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE
IMAGERY THROUGH 1900 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.
California...
Wildfires over Lake and Yolo counties of north central California were
producing large amounts of thick smoke moving quickly to the southwest
and over the San Francisco metro area and several miles into the Pacific
Ocean.
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 Chicago
northeastward over lower Michigan to western New York and northwestern
Pennsylvania and southeastern Ontario eventually reaching out several
hundred miles into the Atlantic.
Southeastern Canada...
A region of thin to moderate dense smoke was seen from eastern Ontario
across central and southern Quebec. 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.
-Westbrook
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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