DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1800Z August 24, 2018.
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SMOKE:
Southern Half of Canada / Northern Half of the US... Remnant smoke
blankets much of the northern U.S. and southern Canadian provinces
as a result of significant wildfire activity throughout the Pacific
Northwest and British Columbia. Light density smoke stretches east from
the source covering Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec,
New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, and is visible approximately
half way to Greenland. Light density smoke also stretches southeast
from the source covering the Intermountain West, the Central Plains,
Great Lakes, Ohio River Valley, the Appalachians and continues out into
the Atlantic. Moderate to very heavy remnant smoke is confined mainly
to the Canadian Provinces, portions of Montana, and most of New England.
BLOWING DUST:
Tropical Atlantic.
Saharan Dust was observed in the central Atlantic Ocean
Ramirez
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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