DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0215Z July 29, 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
and into Ohio.
Western US...
Large wildfires continue to burn in northern California, southeast Oregon,
west and northeast Nevada, and central-south Idaho. Those wildfires were
observed emitting heavy smoke plumes moving in a north-eastward direction
and covering northern Sacramento Valley and northeast California, central
and northern Nevada, and northern Utah. Medium-to-light density smoke
blanketed much of the region and extended towards the east into Wyoming,
Colorado, and Kansas.
DUST:
An area of Saharan dust stretched across the central and western Gulf
of Mexico to the southern Texas coast.
WS
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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