DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1600Z August 23, 2018.
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SMOKE:
Southern Half of Canada/Much of the US...
Significant wildfire activity scattered across the Western US from
northern California and northern Nevada northward across portions of
Idaho, western Montana, and the Pacific Northwest as well as a massive
wildfire outbreak occurring in western Canada, primarily in British
Columbia. Those wildfires continued to be responsible for widespread
coverage of smoke of varying density affecting most of the southern half
of Canada as well as much of the U.S., with the exception of Southwestern
U.S., were relatively smoke free at least as far as what was seen in
visible satellite imagery. The most significant smoke of moderate to
thick density affecting the US blanketed the northwestern portion of the
US from western Montana westward to the portion of the West Coast from
northern California to northwestern Washington. The smoke also extended
offshore of California, Oregon, and Washington over a portion of the
nearby eastern Pacific. Swaths of heavy density smoke extended eastward
from the Pacific Northwest to the North Plains then south through the
Central Plains into the Southern Plains which extended east into the
southeast of the U.S. That smoke reached the Atlantic Ocean. There
was also a swath of moderate to heavy smoke that extended south in
the Gulf of Mexico. Over Canada, thicker smoke covered much of British
Columbia, portions of northern and central Alberta, northern and central
Saskatchewan, and northern and central Manitoba.
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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