DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE
IMAGERY THROUGH 0330Z July 19, 2018.
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SMOKE:
Manitoba/Ontario...
Several wildfires over far southwestern Ontario and far southeastern
Manitoba
are spreading a large thin plume eastward to James Bay. A moderate
plume extends a
few hundred miles to the east with locally thick plumes within 50 miles
of the wildfires.
British Columbia/Washington...
Three primary wildfires close to the U.S. border in British Columbia
are emitting thin/moderate plumes to the east several hundred miles to
extreme northern Idaho. A thick plume from one wildfire straddles the
Washington State border for a few hundred miles. A smaller wildfire
in northeastern Washington State is spreading a thin locally moderate
plume to the Idaho border.
Oregon...
A large wildfire in the north-central part of the state just south of the
Washington State border is producing a thin/moderate plume to the far
northeastern
part of the sate. A thick plume is also being emitted from this fire
extending a few hundred miles eastward from the source.
Several wildfires in the southwestern part of the state have an extensive
thin plume southwest to the Eureka/Crescent City CA area and also eastward
to the southeastern part of the state and far northwestern Nevada.
Moderate/thick plumes are spreading slowly in erratic directions for
tens of miles around the wildfires themselves.
California...
The wildfire near Yosemite National Park continues to spread plumes in
the Sierra-
Nevada region. The thin plume extends northeast into west-central
Nevada, while
the moderate and thick plumes are more confined within 50-100 miles of
the fire.
Texas...
A couple of fires are emitting small, thin plumes not extending very
far from their
point sources. One is located in the southeastern Panhandle, and the
others are
in the central part of the state.
DUST:
Texas/Gulf of Mexico...
An area of suspended SAL dust linked to long-range transport from the
Sahara was seen along the Texas Gulf coast.
BK
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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