DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0330Z July 28, 2018.
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SMOKE:
Eastern Alaska/Canada/North Central US/Appalachian Region/Northeast...
Wildfire activity over portions of Alaska and northwestern Canada along
with long range transport of smoke from wildfire activity in northern
Europe and northern Asia contributed to an enormous mass of rather dense
smoke affecting much of Canada as well as the northern third or half of
the US. Some of the moderately dense smoke spread southeastward from
Montana and North Dakota over the Great Lakes Region and Ohio Valley to
western Pennsylvania and western New York. It is likely that smoke from
wildfires scattered across the Western US has spread eastward over the
Central US and is merging with the smoke coming down from Canada.
Western US...
Wildfires scattered across many states in the Western US were responsible
for another very large area of smoke which blanketed virtually all of the
Western US with the smoke spreading to the east and likely merging with
smoke mentioned in the first paragraph coming down from Canada. Intense
wildfire activity over portions of California and southwestern Oregon
in particular was resulting in very dense smoke covering portions of
California, southern Oregon, southern Idaho, southwestern Wyoming,
the northern half of Nevada, and northern Utah, with another stripe of
thicker smoke across southern California as well as southwestern and
south central Arizona. Additional very dense smoke plumes were also noted
spreading east from wildfires over northern Utah, far northeastern Nevada,
west central and eastern Idaho, and northern Oregon.
DUST:
One area of Saharan dust stretched across the central and western Gulf of
Mexico as well as the Bay of Campeche and over Mexico and possibly even
off the west and southern Mexican coast over the eastern Pacific. The
second batch of Saharan dust extended over Puerto Rico and Hispaniola
and northwest of there to near the southeastern Bahamas.
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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
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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