DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1700Z September 24, 2018.
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SMOKE:
Great Lakes to Upper Mississippi Valley....
An area of light remnant smoke, possibly from wildfires in the western
U.S., extended from southern Minnesota and northern Iowa to eastern
Ontario, generally moving eastward.
Southwestern Oregon....
Fires in southwestern Oregon were producing light smoke extending
southwest from the region. One of these fires was producing a narrow
plume of moderate smoke within the larger plume.
DUST:
Southern Gulf of Mexico/Northwestern Caribbean Sea....
An area of Saharan Dust was in the Southern Gulf of Mexico and
northwestern Caribbean Sea, including the Yucatan Channel.
Clark
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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