DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1730Z September 18, 2018.
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SMOKE:
Central and Southeastern U.S...
Wildfires continue to burn in the Western U.S. with the ones in Wyoming,
Colorado, and Utah primarily responsible for a large area of mainly
thin density smoke which extends from the northern and central Rockies
eastward across the Northern and Central Plains and over the Great Lakes
region. Within this larger mass of smoke, a swath of moderately dense to
thick remnant smoke stretches from southeastern Montana across southern
North Dakota and northern South Dakota to west central Minnesota. It is
not known if this thicker smoke extends any farther to the east due to
cloud cover. Farther to the west, more localized smoke of varying density
was visible closer to some of the wildfires burning in central Idaho,
southwestern Oregon, northern California, and central Arizona. Another
area of thin density smoke extends southward from eastern Kansas and
western Missouri to eastern Texas and Louisiana and eastward from there
to the southern half of Georgia and southern South Carolina. This portion
of the smoke is likely composed mainly of leftover smoke from seasonal
burning occurring in the South Central and Southeastern U.S. though some
contribution from the Western U.S. fire activity is possible over the
Central Plains.
Atlantic Ocean East of Nova Scotia...
Leftover detached thin to moderate density smoke could be seen extending
from just east of Nova Scotia well out over the open Atlantic Ocean.
DUST:
Tropical Atlantic Ocean...
A large area of rather significant Saharan dust could be seen spreading
slowly to the east across the tropical Atlantic Ocean toward the Windward
and Leeward Islands.
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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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