DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0300Z July 22, 2018.
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SMOKE:
Western and Central US...
Moderately dense to thick smoke fanned out to the east and to the
southwest from numerous wildfires located over southwestern Oregon and
down to near the Oregon-California border. The thicker smoke covered a
portion of southwestern and south central Oregon, far northern California,
and off the coast of northern California. A swath of moderately dense
to locally thick smoke from a wildfire near the Nevada-Idaho border
spread quickly to the northeast across southern Idaho. Wildfires over
extreme southern British Columbia produced thick smoke which moved to the
southeast and into north central and northeastern Washington. Thick smoke
from the Ferguson Fire in east central California covered a portion of the
Sierras. In addition, a very large area of thin density smoke attributed
in part to the fires described above and a few other wildfires burning
in the Western US covered a region extending from southern Oregon and
northern/central California eastward and northeastward over northern
Nevada, virtually all of Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, and the western and
central portion of the Dakotas. Thick smoke spread northeastward from a
couple of wildfires located in northwestern and north central Colorado
with a larger area of thinner density smoke linked to these wildfires
and others in the Western US extending to the east and southeast over
the Central Plains.
North Central US...
A patch of thin to moderately dense smoke appeared from the edge of
a cloud deck across portions of Wisconsin, the UP of Michigan, and
Minnesota. This smoke was believed to be from wildfire activity in south
central and southeastern Canada.
South Central Canada...
Wildfires in western Ontario and southeastern Manitoba produced thick
smoke which moved to the west during the day. A larger region of thin
and moderately dense smoke from these fires was visible over southern
and western Manitoba, and the eastern half of Saskatchewan.
Eastern Canada...
A swath of leftover thin density smoke likely from wildfire activity
over Canada was seen stretching from eastern Quebec eastward to off the
coast of Newfoundland.
DUST:
Caribbean...
A large mass of Saharan dust was seen stretching across Puerto Rico,
Hispaniola, Cuba, Jamaica, and much of the Caribbean Sea to the Yucatan
Peninsula.
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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
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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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