DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0002Z August 11, 2018.
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SMOKE:
Canada/North-Central US...
Smoke from numerous wildfires across Washington, Idaho, and British
Columbia continues to contribute to a large area of light to moderate
smoke extending across the Canadian provinces into northern Ontario and
moving generally eastward, as well as extending southward into the Great
Plains from the Dakotas and Minnesota down to eastern Colorado, Kansas,
and northern Missouri and moving southeastward. Locally, several of
the fires in British Columbia are producing plumes of thick smoke which
extend north and northeastward from their parent fires.
Western US...
Wildfires in northern California, southwestern Oregon, and Utah continue
to produce plumes of thick smoke, with fires in Montana, Colorado,
and Arizona producing plumes of moderate smoke, in addition to other
fires throughout the region producing at least light smoke. These all
are contributing to a large area of remnant smoke in a roughly annular
shape moving around an upper-level ridge.
BLOWING DUST:
Caribbean Sea/Gulf of Mexico...
An area of Saharan dust is seen extending from east of the Yucatan
Peninsula into most of the Gulf of Mexico. Another burst of Saharan dust
is seen moving westward off of the African continent.
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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