DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1800Z July 28, 2018.
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SMOKE:
Canada/North Central US/Western Great Lakes...
Scattered wildfires across much of western Canada, ranging from southern
British Columbia up through northwestern Alberta and into the Yukon
and Northwest Territories are producing plumes of light to very dense
smoke. This is adding to a large mass of persistent smoke resulting from
these and other fires in Canada, Alaska, and possibly northern Asia and
Europe. This smoke stretches across most of the Canadian provinces as
far as Quebec, and extends across the north-central US and Great Lakes
to at least Ohio, where cloud cover prevents further analysis. The mass
of smoke contains smaller areas of greater-density smoke within it,
particularly over Alberta, Saskatchewan, and eastern Montana.
Western US...
Wildfires scattered across several states in the Western US were
responsible for another very large area of smoke which blanketed much
of the western US with smoke of varying densities ranging from light to
heavy, with the smoke spreading to the east and southeast. The greatest
contributors to this area are several notable fires in California,
particularly the Carr and Ferguson fires, which are producing plumes of
very dense smoke which cover virtually all of the northern and central
sections of that state.
DUST:
An area of Saharan dust stretched across the central and western Gulf
of Mexico to the southern Texas coast. A second, larger area of Saharan
dust extended over the entire Caribbean Sea.
Clark
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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