DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE
IMAGERY THROUGH 0330Z July 20, 2018.
NESDIS IS INVESTIGATING THE UTILITY OF THIS TEXT NARRATIVE. IF YOU FIND
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SMOKE:
Pacific Northwest...
Several large wildfires continue across this region. One group is over
south-central British Columbia near the Washington border. A single
fire located in
central Washington, a second in north-central Oregon close to the
Washington
border, and another group in southwestern Oregon. A large thin plume
exists
from all these fires covering southeastern British Columbia, eastern
Washington,
most of Idaho, half of Oregon, and northern California/Nevada.
Locally moderate
to heavy plumes are found immediately east and northeast of these point
fire sources.
California...
The Yosemite National Park wildfire continues to produce a large area
of smoke
thin to heavy that covers much of the central part of the state.
Two small
wildfires with thin locally moderate plumes are burning east and
southeast of
the Los Angeles area.
Utah/Colorado....
Two wildfires in the northeast part of Utah are spreading thin and
some moderate
plumes eastward to the Colorado border. A wildfire in the White River
National Forest is spreading a thick plume to the southeast about
100 miles.
Texas/Oklahoma...
About a dozen wildfires from central Texas to central Oklahoma are
spreading
small thin plumes to the north. One larger fire near Caprock Canyons
State Park
has a moderate to thick plume spreading slowly southward.
Manitoba/Ontario...
Several large wildfires continue over far southeastern Manitoba and far
southwestern Ontario spreading extensive moderate to thick plumes to the
James Bay area. A couple more wildfires are found over northeastern
Ontario close to the Quebec border with thin locally moderate plumes
spreading to the northeast.
-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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