DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0002Z August 10, 2018.
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SMOKE:
Much of Canada and the US with the possible exception of the Southeastern
US...
The ongoing significant amount of wildfire activity scattered across
portions of the Western US and Western Canada continued to emit
large quantities of smoke with an enormous area of varying density
smoke blanketing much of the southern half of Canada though portions
of northern Ontario and northern Quebec and Hudson Bay may be mainly
free of smoke. The smoke also covered a good portion of the US with the
possible exception of the Southeastern US from eastern Texas and eastern
Oklahoma to the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida. In greater detail, an
area of thicker smoke from wildfires in Utah and western Colorado was
visible spreading southward over southern Utah, southwestern Colorado,
northwestern New Mexico, and northern Arizona. Thick smoke from wildfires
in California, southwestern Oregon, portions of Washington state and
Idaho was noted roughly across the northern half of California, much
of Oregon and Washington, and up over northern Idaho and into western
Montana. A large area of moderately dense to thick smoke attributed to
both wildfire activity in the Western US and over Western Canada could
be seen over much of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and far
southern Ontario in Canada and stretching from Montana eastward over the
Dakotas and the Great Lakes Region to northern New York in the northern
US. Thinner density smoke was visible over portions of the Central and
South Central US as well as the Ohio Valley Region, the Middle Atlantic
Region, and the Northeast.
BLOWING DUST:
Caribbean Region/Southern Florida/Gulf of Mexico...
The mass of Saharan Dust continued to be visible moving to the west
covering much of the Caribbean region including Puerto Rico, Hispaniola,
Cuba, Jamaica, the Bahamas, southern Florida, the eastern and southern
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.
Rodriguez
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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