DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1800Z July 30, 2018.
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SMOKE:
Canada...
Wildfire activity is observed from the Yukon into British Columbia,
with an additional fire in northeastern Ontario, producing heavy density
plumes near the sources along with light-density smoke aloft stretching
across most of southern Canada. The plumes are seen drifting predominantly
towards the east.
Western US...
Numerous large wildfires continue to burn in northern California,
southwest Oregon, western and northeast Nevada, central
Washington, central-southern Idaho, southwest Wyoming, and western
Colorado. High-density smoke associated with the California fires
is moving immediately north over Oregon, then dispersing east and
east-southeastward, with the fires in other states adding to the plume
with mostly medium-density smoke, reaching as far as western Kansas and
the Texas Panhandle. An additional area of remnant smoke is seen over
southeastern Texas and western Louisiana moving generally southward.
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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