DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0100Z August 24, 2018.
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SMOKE:
Southern Half of Canada/Much of the US...
Significant wildfire activity scattered across the western CONUS and
western Canada, from northern California and northern Nevada northward
across portions of Idaho, western Montana, and British Columbia,
continue to be responsible for widespread coverage of varying density
smoke blanketing most of the southern half of Canada as well as the
northern and southeastern CONUS, the northern Gulf of Mexico, the north
Atlantic Ocean including Greenland and the Azores, and the Pacific Ocean
from California to a point halfway between Hawaii and California. The most
dense smoke was covering much of southern Canada from British Columbia to
Quebec, the Pacific Northwest, the Intermountain West, the Great Basin,
and northern California. In addition to the fires across western North
America, a couple fires throughout western Ontario and eastern Alberta
were contributing thick smoke as well. The lighter density smoke was
extending as far east as the Azores and near Iceland and Ireland. In
addition to the thick, dense smoke across Canada and the northern CONUS,
another region of relatively dense remnant smoke was observed across the
southeastern CONUS and northern Gulf of Mexico, extending from Texas into
Florida and up across southern Georgia, South Carolina, and southern North
Carolina across the Atlantic Ocean into the Canadian Maritime Provinces.
BLOWING DUST:
Tropical Atlantic.
Another Saharan Dust event was observed emerging from Morocco and
Mauritania out into the Atlantic Ocean at about 40W and moving west.
Hosley
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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