DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0300Z August 8, 2018.
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SMOKE:
Western and central North America....
Large wildfires from southern, central and northern California and
central Oregon 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
Fires. The California fires are emitting smoke in a southerly direction
that is offshore west of Baja California. Fires in Utah, Colorado,
and Arizona had the smoke shift from a southwest direction to a east
southeast direction throughout the evening.
BLOWING DUST:
Caribbean Sea....
Saharan Dust was observed moving across the Caribbean Sea this morning
and afternoon and evening with a reinforcing shot moving across the
Atlantic. All of this dust was moving west.
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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