DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0230Z October 20, 2018.
SMOKE:
California/Oregon...
A combination of seasonal fires and a few wildfires has resulted in
sizable areas of mainly thin density smoke scattered across portions of
Oregon and California with thicker smoke located closer to the actual
fires.
Washington/Idaho/Western Montana/British Columbia/Alberta...
Mainly seasonal fires were detected scattered over portions of Washington,
Idaho, western Montana, British Columbia, and Alberta with visible thin
density smoke associated with smoke of this activity.
South Central Canada/North Dakota/Northwestern Minnesota...
Mainly seasonal agricultural fires were detected over the southern parts
of Saskatchewan and Manitoba in Canada and the northern portion of North
Dakota and northwestern Minnesota with a number of thin density smoke
plumes spreading quickly to the southeast.
Western High Plains...
Nearly a dozen seasonal fires resulted in puffs of thin density smoke
which moved very quickly to the south over extreme eastern Colorado,
southwestern Nebraska, western Kansas, and the Oklahoma Panhandle.
DUST:
Southern Idaho/Northern Utah...
A couple of thin density patches of blowing dust were visible spreading to
the south over southern Idaho and over the Great Salt Lake in northern
Utah.
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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)
ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS REGARDING THIS PRODUCT SHOULD BE SENT TO:
SSDFireTeam@noaa.gov