DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0300Z September 9, 2018.
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SMOKE:
Western and North Central U.S./Southwestern and South-Central Canada...
Similar to yesterday, wildfires burning over portions of northern
California, Oregon, Idaho, western Montana, and Washington were continuing
to be responsible for a large mass of varying density smoke extending
from northern California and the Pacific Northwest eastward to the
North Central U.S. The relatively thinner density smoke also spread
across south central Canada from the eastern half of Alberta eastward
to southwestern Ontario. Thicker density smoke was prominent emanating
primarily from the fires in southwestern Oregon and northern California
and moving to the northeast covering northern California, southern Oregon,
far northern Nevada, the southern half of Idaho, and southwestern Montana
with moderate density smoke visible over much of the remainder of Montana.
DUST:
Northern Nevada/Southeastern Oregon/Southern Idaho/Northwestern Utah...
A significant stripe of thicker blowing dust originating from the
Carson Sink in northwestern Nevada moved to the northeast into north
central Nevada with the leading edge nearing the border of southeastern
Oregon. Additional swaths of at least moderate density blowing dust
originated from multiple spots in north central Nevada and moved to
the east-northeast over southwestern and south central Idaho and far
northwestern Utah.
Northern Baja...
Moderate density blowing dust originated from a source in northern
Baja and fanned out as it spread to the north and northwest with the
thinner leading edge nearing the border of southern California just
prior to sunset.
JS
Earlier This Morning...
North-Central Canada...
A large area of remnant smoke was visible over southern Nunavut and most
of Hudson Bay. This smoke is likely left over long range transport of
smoke from wildfire activity in Asia with the possibility of some smoke
originating from wildfires in western Canada and the Northwestern U.S.
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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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