DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0300Z August 9, 2018.
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SMOKE:
Much of Canada and the Western and Central US...
Major wildfire activity across portions of the Western US and up into
Western Canada was responsible for an enormous mass of varying density
smoke covering virtually all of the southern half of Canada along with the
Western and Central US. Over the US, the thickest smoke was noted over
a good portion of California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Montana
as well as the eastern half of Utah, Colorado, and the northern half
of Arizona and New Mexico. Moderately dense to locally thicker smoke
also stretched across North Dakota and northern Minnesota to the Great
Lakes Region. Over Canada, a tremendous wildfire outbreak especially
affecting portions of British Columbia resulted in the thickest smoke
spreading across British Columbia, Alberta, and Saskatchewan with a bit
more narrow swath of moderately dense to locally thicker smoke extending
eastward over Manitoba, Ontario, and a portion of Quebec.
BLOWING DUST:
Caribbean Sea....
Saharan Dust was observed moving to the west covering much of the
Caribbean region including Puerto Rico, Hispaniola, Cuba, Jamaica, the
Bahamas, southern Florida, the eastern Gulf of Mexico, and the Yucatan
Peninsula. Additional Saharan dust was visible farther out to the east
over the Atlantic to the east of Puerto Rico.
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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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