DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1600Z August 6, 2018.
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SMOKE:
Western and central North America....
Large wildfires from central and northern California into northern
British Columbia continue to burn and emit thick smoke, contributing to
an expansive area of varying density smoke reaching from the Pacific
coast eastward as far as Lake Superior and Hudson Bay and from the
southwestern Northwest Territory to Guadalupe Island 150 miles offshore
of Baja California. Moderate density as observed across much of western
Canada, the Pacific Coast states, the Snake River Valley, the Great Basin,
Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, and the northern Great Plains. A separate area
of remnant moderate density smoke was observed over southern Manitoba and
northern Minnesota. The thickest smoke exists across much of California,
Oregon, eastern Washington, northern Nevada, northern Utah, southern
Wyoming, northern Colorado, and southwestern Nebraska. Much of the smoke
east of 120 West and in Canada is moving off toward the east, while
smoke across western California is moving south and smoke across northern
California and Oregon is mainly moving north. Pyrocumulonimbus clouds were
observed emanating from fires in northern Arizona, central Utah, southern
California, northern California, and north-central Washington state.
BLOWING DUST:
Caribbean Sea....
Saharan Dust was observed moving across the Caribbean Sea this afternoon
and evening with a reinforcing shot moving across the Atlantic. All of
this dust was moving west.
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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