DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0547z August 5, 2018.
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SMOKE:
Canada and the 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 south
to New York and Pennsylvania and then extending southwest to the Central
Plains of the United States. Within this area of smoke, a large area of
moderate density smoke extended from northern Ontario south to the Upper
Midwest of the United States extending west through the southern portion
of the Canadian Provinces, Northern Plains, Northern and Central Rockies
towards Washington, Oregon and California. The highest density smoke
was confined to near and just downwind of fire locations. Further to
the north, an area of moderate density smoke, from fires over northern
British Columbia and the Yukon, was extending from northern Saskatchewan
to the Northwest Territories.
DUST:
Caribbean Sea....
The leading edge of Saharan Dust continues working through the Caribbean
Sea and southwest Atlantic and was approaching the eastern Bahamas.
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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