DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0547z August 4, 2018.
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SMOKE:
Canada/Western and Central United States....
Wildfires continue over much of the Western United States and Western
Canada. A tremendous area of light to moderate density smoke from this
activity extended as far east as western Quebec in Canada extending
southwest to the Upper Midwest and western Gulf Coast of the United
States. Within this area of smoke, a large area of moderate density
smoke extended from western Ontario and the upper Midwest of the United
States through most of the southern Canadian Provinces, Northern Plains,
Northern and Central Rockies towards Washington, Oregon and Central
California. Very dense smoke was located closer to the ongoing wildfires
over California. Further north, an area of moderate to high density
smoke, from fires over northern British Columbia and the Yukon, was
extending from the Northwest Territories west through northern British
Columbia west to the southern Yukon.
DUST:
The leading edge of Saharan Dust was working into the eastern Caribbean
Sea and approaching Puerto Rico.
Hanna
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
Remnant higher level smoke from previous-day burning can be seen covering
much of Alberta and central-southern Saskatchewan.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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