DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE
IMAGERY THROUGH 0130 UTC July 10, 2018.
NESDIS IS INVESTIGATING THE UTILITY OF THIS TEXT NARRATIVE. IF YOU FIND
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SMOKE:
Western CONUS/Great Plains/Great Lakes...
An expansive area of varying density smoke blankets much of the
northern CONUS. The thickest smoke was observed over southeastern
Montana and South Dakota. The most likely source of this smoke is the
wildfire in north-central Wyoming. Elsewhere, wildfires throughout the
western CONUS were observed contributing to this layer of smoke. The
most intense fires contributing to this layer were observed in far
northern California/southern Oregon (Klamathon), northern Nevada
(Martin and others), and northwestern Colorado. Outside of these, some
intense individual fires are located in northeastern New Mexico and the
northwestern San Joaquin Valley. The moderate density portion of the
layer over northern Illinois into northeastern Colorado is remnant from
fires across northern Nevada and northern Wyoming this past weekend.
Canada...
A large area of higher level smoke is seen covering most of Canada. The
smoke is linked to long-range transport of smoke originating from biomass
burning in central Russia during the first week of July, as well as to a
few intense wildfires throughout Canada, such as one in central Manitoba
and the southeasternmost portions of the Yukon Territory.
Hosley
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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