DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200Z July 31, 2018.
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SMOKE:
Alaska/Yukon Territory...
Wildfire activity was observed producing moderate to thick density
smoke across central Alaska and much of the central and southern Yukon
Territory. Much of the smoke was observed moving off toward the east.
Western US/southern Canada...
Wildfires from California into southern British Columbia and New
Mexico are contributing thick smoke to an expansive region of varying
density smoke extending from the Pacific Ocean into western Ontario
and the mid-Mississippi Valley. The most dense smoke exists across
northern and central California, northern Nevada, Oregon, Idaho,
Washington, northwestern Utah, southern British Columbia and southern
Alberta. Another area of higher density remnant smoke, likely from all
the wildfire activity across the western US, over south-central Alberta,
southern Saskatchewan and southern Manitoba. Smoke is also very dense
near many of the individual wildfires across the Rocky Mountains. The
smoke is moving off from the wildfires in California north along the
Pacific coast into southern British Columbia, where the smoke begins to
move east. The smoke then turns south across south central Canada into
the Dakotas and then southeast and east around an upper level trough
into where the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers meet.
Central Ontario/Southern Quebec...
A long-lived wildfire on the northeastern shore of Georgian Bay is still
producing thick smoke that extends east towards the Quebec City metro
area. The thick smoke was observed moving off toward the east-northeast
this afternoon and evening.
Hosley
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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