DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0230Z September 25, 2018.
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SMOKE:
Upper Mississippi Valley/Great Lakes Region/Northeast...
Remnant thin density smoke attributed to wildfire activity over the
Western U.S. was visible earlier in the day extending from Minnesota
and Iowa eastward over the Great Lakes Region and the Northeast to off
the Northeast U.S. coast and over the Atlantic south of Nova Scotia.
Western Wyoming...
A couple of wildfire complexes in western Wyoming were emitting moderately
dense to thick smoke which moved mainly to the east spreading across
central Wyoming.
Southwestern Oregon/Northwestern California...
Wildfires in southwestern Oregon and northwestern California were
producing moderately dense to thick smoke which moved primarily to the
west and southwest and offshore with the smoke thinning out as it moved
farther to the south off the northern and central California coast.
DUST:
Central and Southwestern Texas...
Satellite imagery showed what appeared to be patches of possible thin
density blowing dust moving to the north near the Rio Grande and over
southwestern Texas near and to the north of Del Rio TX. Another area of
thin density blowing dust was moving to the northeast over and north of
Junction TX.
Nevada...
Swaths of thin density blowing dust originated from sources in north
central and east central Nevada this afternoon and moved to the south.
East Central California...
Thin density blowing dust appeared to be kicked up along portions of
the eastern slopes of the Sierra-Nevada Mountain chain in east central
California with the dust moving generally to the west.
Northern Baja/Southern California...
An area of thin density blowing dust emanated from sources in far
northeastern Baja and fanned out to the north and west with some of the
dust spreading into southeastern California.
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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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