DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0130Z October 7, 2018.
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SMOKE:
British Columbia and Washington State...
Light density smoke plumes were observed emanating from fire activity
throughout throughout British Columbia and Washington State. Most of
the observed smoke was moving off toward the southeast. Cloud cover
was present across much of the other parts of the Pacific Northwest,
which may have obscured fire and smoke activity in the region.
Southeast U.S./Mississippi Valley...
Numerous agricultural and prescribed fires emitting mainly light density
smoke were observed across the southeast from Georgia and Florida west
into Texas. Smoke plumes could be seen moving westward off of a few fires
south of Lake Okeechobee in Florida. Elsewhere, smoke was moving clockwise
around surface high pressure centered over the Appalachians. Fair-weather
cumulus clouds prevented the analysis of more smoke throughout the region.
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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