DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1600Z August 6, 2018.
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SMOKE:
Western and central CONUS and western Canada....
Large wildfires from central and northern California into British Columbia
continue to burn, contributing to an expansive area of varying density
smoke reaching from the Pacific coast eastward as far as Lake Superior
and from the southwestern Northwest Territory to the Colorado River
near Blythe, CA. Two large regions of moderate density were observed,
one from a wildfire complex in northwest British Columbia eastward into
Alberta and central Saskatchewan with the other covering much of the
CONUS northwest of a line from Death Valley, CA to Duluth, MN. Residual
Smoke from the west coast fires was observed over Hudson Bay this morning.
BLOWING DUST:
Caribbean Sea....
The persistent Saharan Dust layer extending across the Atlantic was
moving westward covering much of the Caribbean Sea and has reached the
Yucatan peninsula and Central America this morning.
Westbrook
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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