DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0300Z September 11, 2018.
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SMOKE:
Area from Oregon/California eastward to the Northern and Central U.S...
A rather extensive swath of smoke attributed to wildfires burning in the
Western U.S. was visible extending from southwestern Oregon and northern
California eastward to the Northern Plains and then fanning out from
there to include Ontario, the western Great Lakes Region, and the Middle
Mississippi Valley. Much of this smoke is of thin density with thicker
smoke located farther to the west closer to the active fires. Moderately
dense smoke stretched from northern California across northern Nevada,
southern and central Idaho, and southwestern Montana. Thick smoke was
noted extending east of a couple of fires in central Idaho, near larger
wildfires in southwestern Oregon, and across a portion of northern
California closer to the more significant wildfires in that area.
DUST:
Northern Nevada...
Blowing dust was seen spreading to the east and northeast from the Carson
Sink in northwestern Nevada with the dust appearing to mix with smoke
from the wildfires a bit farther to the west in southwestern Oregon and
northern California.
Northern Baja...
A patch of rather dense blowing dust originating from a source region
in northern Baja fanned out as it spread to the north and northwest in
the direction of the southern California-Mexico border.
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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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