DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0300Z September 19, 2018.
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CORRECTED FOR DIRECTION IN WHICH SAHARAN DUST IS MOVING
SMOKE:
North-central CONUS/Southeastern Canada...
Wildfire activity across central Utah, far western Wyoming, western
Montana, and western Colorado was contributing to a large smoke plume
extending eastward across the Great Lakes into the northeastern CONUS and
the Maritime Provinces, with high cloud obscuring portions of the plume
leading to discontinuities in the drawn smoke. The smoke emanating from
these fires is thick, with a few pyrocumulus clouds observed. away from
the parent activity, the smoke is generally light to moderate across
northern Wyoming, the Dakotas, and Minnesota.
Western CONUS...
Wildfire activity across the western CONUS not associated with
the item above was observed producing mainly thin smoke plumes this
afternoon. Ongoing activity across northern California and southern Oregon
was producing some thick smoke, some of which was making it offshore
and south along the Pacific coast. The rest of the smoke across northern
California was drifting north. Elsewhere, the lighter smoke plumes were
observed moving off toward the east-northeast.
Southeastern CONUS/southern Plains...
Remnant smoke from yesterday's and today's agricultural burning across
the southeastern CONUS was evident from Missouri south into Louisiana
and then east into southern Georgia. the activity producing this smoke
ranges from eastern Kansas and southern Illinois into Texas, Alabama,
and Georgia.
DUST:
Tropical Atlantic Ocean...
A large area of rather significant Saharan dust could be seen spreading
slowly to the west across the tropical Atlantic Ocean toward the Windward
and Leeward Islands.
Northern Nevada...
A stream of dust was emanating from the Black Rock Desert and from
near Battle Mountain in northern Nevada. This dust was moving off to
the east-northeast.
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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