DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1800Z July 29, 2018.
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SMOKE:
Canada/North Central US...
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 the western Canadian
provinces east into Manitoba, and extends southward into Montana and
North Dakota. Another disconnected area of remnant smoke is drifting
over eastern Canada. A fire on the northeastern shore of Lake Huron in
Ontario is producing a plume of dense smoke moving east-northeastward.
Western US...
Large wildfires continue to burn in northern California, southeast
Oregon, west and northeast Nevada, central-south Idaho, and southwestern
Wyoming. Those wildfires were observed emitting heavy smoke plumes moving
in a north-eastward direction and covering northern Sacramento Valley
and northeast California, southern Oregon, and central and northern
Nevada. Medium-to-light density smoke also blanketed much of the region
and extended towards the east into Wyoming, Colorado, and Kansas.
MC
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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